GST fraud: 10-day custody for senior journalist, 3 others

Apart from Langa, the Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) has besides got 10-day custody of 3 different accused who were arrested with him connected Tuesday. They person been identified arsenic Aijaz Iqbal Habib Maldar (30), Abdulkader Samad Kadri (33) and Jyotish Magan Gondaliya (42).

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Ajit Rajian said they had sought 14 days of remand but the tribunal gave 10 days of custody. The fraud, arsenic per officials, caused nonaccomplishment worthy crores of rupees to the authorities exchequer, with the accused availing and passing connected bogus ITC done fake bills. There are much than 220 benami firms acceptable up connected the ground of forged documents that were utilized successful the alleged racket, the FIR claims.

Langa is not named successful the FIR. However, his relative Manojkumar Langa has been named arsenic 1 of the proprietors of an Ahmedabad-based firm, DA Enterprise, successful which Langa’s woman is simply a partner,  constabulary said.

Suresh Nambath, Editor, The Hindu, connected Wednesday reacted to Langa’s apprehension connected societal media level Bluesky. “While we person nary details astir the merits of the case, we are fixed to recognize that this is not related to his reports published successful The Hindu.” helium wrote. Nambath  said, “We  would similar to authorities astatine this clip that we admit his nonrecreational enactment for The Hindu arsenic the Gujarat analogous based successful Ahmedabad. We bash anticipation that nary writer anyplace is targeted for their work, and we expect the probe to beryllium conducted reasonably and quickly”.