GURUGRAM: The town police seem to have made little development in the investigation into the MCG assets tax evasion rip-off, even six months after the misappropriations had been unearthed and FIRs had been registered in the case.
Sources said none of the witnesses had spoken up or supplied any help in the investigation. Thus just lately, Gurgaon police commissioner Sandeep Khirwar wrote to the MCG commissioner, seeking to grasp the procedure of tax payments. He has additionally additional details at the assets tax payments.
“We have hit certain roadblocks in our investigation. Hence, we've got sought readability at the procedure of tax payments and a few different aspects,” said Khirwar. He added that the police had been exploring the whole lot for foolproof investigation.
MCG officers, when approached, said they'd received the letter from the police and had been working at the reaction.
MCG commissioner V. Umashankar said the police commissioner had submitted a status record at the probe and sought extra details. “What they have basically instructed us that they have got not got any verbal evidence against someone until now. The police have additionally asked for readability at the procedure of tax payments,” he added.
Further, Umashankar said the MCG had already recovered tax dues from the owners of 84 houses whilst process was once on to seal seven different houses, even because the police had been carrying on their investigations into the rip-off. Three assets owners have gone to court docket against the MCG move to recover dues.
The alleged rip-off got here to gentle in August ultimate year when an FIR was once filed at Sadar police station, following a criticism via a zonal taxation officer of the MCG, by which first of all six houses had been discussed for alleged tax evasion.
Later, seven extra houses had been integrated in the criticism and any other FIR was once lodged at DLF 2 police station. Preliminary probe urged those frauds came about between August 2015 and April 2017 and owners of round 100 business houses, in connivance with some civic officers, had been evading taxes. Subsequently, the civic body came upon that a couple of of its workers had floated a fake web page to lure other people to get their taxes lowered.
These workers forged the signatures of senior MCG officers for this purpose, thus inflicting a loss of no less than Rs five crore to the company.
Sources said none of the witnesses had spoken up or supplied any help in the investigation. Thus just lately, Gurgaon police commissioner Sandeep Khirwar wrote to the MCG commissioner, seeking to grasp the procedure of tax payments. He has additionally additional details at the assets tax payments.
“We have hit certain roadblocks in our investigation. Hence, we've got sought readability at the procedure of tax payments and a few different aspects,” said Khirwar. He added that the police had been exploring the whole lot for foolproof investigation.
MCG officers, when approached, said they'd received the letter from the police and had been working at the reaction.
MCG commissioner V. Umashankar said the police commissioner had submitted a status record at the probe and sought extra details. “What they have basically instructed us that they have got not got any verbal evidence against someone until now. The police have additionally asked for readability at the procedure of tax payments,” he added.
Further, Umashankar said the MCG had already recovered tax dues from the owners of 84 houses whilst process was once on to seal seven different houses, even because the police had been carrying on their investigations into the rip-off. Three assets owners have gone to court docket against the MCG move to recover dues.
The alleged rip-off got here to gentle in August ultimate year when an FIR was once filed at Sadar police station, following a criticism via a zonal taxation officer of the MCG, by which first of all six houses had been discussed for alleged tax evasion.
Later, seven extra houses had been integrated in the criticism and any other FIR was once lodged at DLF 2 police station. Preliminary probe urged those frauds came about between August 2015 and April 2017 and owners of round 100 business houses, in connivance with some civic officers, had been evading taxes. Subsequently, the civic body came upon that a couple of of its workers had floated a fake web page to lure other people to get their taxes lowered.
These workers forged the signatures of senior MCG officers for this purpose, thus inflicting a loss of no less than Rs five crore to the company.
No headway in tax scam probe, cops seek MCG’s help
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