Solan, Jul 22 : A team of GST Vigilance Bureau has unearthed a racket of fake billing of Rs 950 crore at industrial Baddi in Solan district. Reliable sources in bureau revealed that the case was being considered as a big success towards unmasking the fake billing racket to evade tax in the state.
The team members have also booked two people in this connection. The sources revealed that the investigation is on to find out the further involvement of other people and to detect that as how the fake billing racket was being carried out.
Deputy Director, GST Vigilance Bureau Shimla Zone Harvinder Pal Singh, said the bureau has arrested Prateek Garg and Akshat Bansal alias Monu in this case. He said both of them used to make fake bills and register Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the name of daily wagers and rickshaw pullers.
He said after receiving the information, a team was constituted that carried out the raids on eight places in Himachal and Delhi and unearthed the case of fake billing, Wednesday. Both the alleged accused people were residents of Delhi. He further said the alleged accused are also involved in hawala business. However, more evidences are being gathered . Earlier, the Directorate of GST Vigilance Chandigarh had raided many places in Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab.
Notably, the this was not an isolated case of fake billing , earlier the investigating agencies have received similar information regarding carrying out of fake billing rackets in Badd- Barotiwala- Nalagarh (BBN) industrial belts and parts of the country.
After this the team of Directorate of GST, under the leadership of Additional Director General, raided various steel and iron industries of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and searched the records. Deputy Director Harvinder Pal said its mastermind was Sahil Garg of Mandi Gobindgarh, who was arrested a few months ago. Now he is in judicial custody. In the action taken now, the team of Vigilance Bureau unmasked the case of fake billing of 750 crores a few months ago in which accused Sahil Garg was arrested.
