• Notification Date: 01-11-2023
• Notification No: N/A

Uttarakhand GST Dept arrests man for Rs 18 crore Tax Evasion

The Uttarakhand GST Department has arrested a man for alleged tax evasion of more than Rs 18 crore on a Rs 100-crore turnover by creating several fake firms in collusion with other people, officials said on Monday. 

Shahnawaz Hussain was absconding since March 4, 2023, when the department launched an intensive search and seizure operation to unearth the racket in the Jaspur area of Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand, they said. He was arrested on Sunday. 

The investigation went on for almost a year on the directions of Commissioner Tax, Uttarakhand, Dr Ahmed Iqbal, and under the leadership of Additional Commissioner, Kumaon, Rakesh Verma, and supervision of Joint Commissioner Ranveer Singh. It used drones, advanced digital tracking and analysis software like FALKAN, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), and electronic surveillance, officials said.