The police have registered a case against unknown people for allegedly forging documents in the name of a Vakola resident to open a bank account, before carrying out various transactions to the tune of ₹13.77 crore.
The complainant, 21-year-old Sakshi Jeetendra Adsul, told the police that her father, Jeetendra Adsul received notices from the Income Tax Department and the Goods and Service Tax Department (GST) asking him to pay around ₹2.83 crore in taxes because of the alleged fraud. He has been running pillar to post to get the notices cancelled, the police said.
According to the Vakola police, the fraud came to light in November 2022 when Jeetendra’s tax consultant informed him about a ₹13.77 crore transaction in a bank account related to his PAN card, which led to a GST invoice of ₹2.83 crore. On being informed that the transaction wasn’t made by his client, the tax consultant raised the issue with the Income Tax Department and GST Department.
