Income sleuths unearth Rs.2 crore TDS scam in Ferozepur<\/p>\n
Ferozepur, April 23, 2023: \u00a0A case of transfer of TDS – Tax Deducted at Source \u2013 amount of Rs.2 crore, in his and his relatives, has come on surface by an outsource employee of Income Tax Department has been unearthed. \u00a0A case under Section 420, 120-B has been registered at Ferozepur Cantt police station on the complaint of Naresh Kumar Bansal, Income Tax Officer, against Prince Chopra resident of Ferozepur City along with an unidentified person.<\/p>\n
As per details, Prince Chopra an employee of outsourcing in the Income Tax Department transferred TDS of about Rs 2 crore of various government departments \u2013 BDPO Ferozepur, EO Nagar Panchayat Mamdot, EO Municipal Council Ferozepur, SSP CID Zonal Ferozepur and IG Ferozepur in the income tax returns of financial year 2020-21 and 2021-22, to his and his relatives’ accounts. It was revealed on investigation of complaints received in in this regard. \u00a0On the complaint from Income Tax Officer Naresh Kumar Bansal, a case has been registered against Prince Chopra and unidentified person under various sections of fraud and cheating.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, \u00a0the police have started further action by registering a case against the accused and his other accomplices with appointment of Amandeep Kaur as Investigating Officer.\u00a0 However, the accused is still out of the grip of the police.<\/p>\n
In the complaint given to the police, Income Tax Officer Ward No. 3 Naresh Kumar Bansal said that Prince Chopra’s son Pravesh Chopra, resident of Sant Nagar Ichche Wala Road Ferozepur city, along with some of his other colleagues, had looted government departments by falsifying the income tax returns, a scam of about Rs 2 crore has been done. In this, BDPO Ferozepur, EO Nagar Panchayat Mamdot, EO Municipal Council Ferozepur for cheating in income tax returns for the financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22. Prince Chopra, the alleged accused, posted on outsourcing in the Tax Department, attached the said refund to his PAN card and along with the PAN cards of his other acquaintances and got the said amount refunded in their bank accounts.<\/p>\n
However, the official said, it is not possible to hoodwink the system since everything is digitised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Income sleuths unearth Rs.2 crore TDS scam in Ferozepur Ferozepur, April 23, 2023: \u00a0A case of transfer of TDS – Tax Deducted at Source \u2013 amount of Rs.2 crore, in his and his relatives, has come on surface by an outsource employee of Income Tax Department has been unearthed. \u00a0A case under Section 420, 120-B …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferozepuronline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}