Accused sent to 10-day police remand in GST evasion case
A day after the Ahmedabad Crime Branch made arrests in an alleged GST scam where suspects are said to have floated bogus firms and availed input tax credit, a court on Wednesday (October 9, 2024) sent the accused persons to police custody for 10 days.
In a remand application, the police stated that custodial interrogation was required to unearth the conspiracy to create losses to the government.
One of the suspects arrested in the case is The Hindu’s Gujarat correspondent Mahesh Langa.
Mr. Langa’s counsel Vedanta Rajguru said that the journalist is neither a director nor promoter of the company, DA Enterprise, which has been named in the First Information Report (FIR). In the remand application, police said that he was running DA Enterprise in the names of his relative and wife.
The company in question is owned by Mr. Manoj Langa, a relative of Mr. Mahesh Langa, and the latter’s wife is a silent partner with no rights to undertake any transaction or access bank accounts.
