Rs 1 crore income-tax notice to Kalyan labourer: Cops seek KYC, bank transaction details

By: Pradeep Gupta
KALYAN: The Titwala police investigating the case of a Kalyan labourer receiving a notice from the income-tax department asking him to pay Rs1.05 crore as tax for the money that was "deposited" in his bank account during demonetisation, has sought his KYC details and bank statement from a private bank where an account was opened in his name.
On January 16, TOI had reported that Bhausaheb Ahire (35) had received a notice from the I-T department on September 5, 2019, seeking explanation on a Rs 58 lakh deposit in his account maintained by a private bank.Ahire claimed the fraudsters forged the signatures too, and the photograph on the PAN card copy submitted to the bank was different. Ahire said the matter was put to rest after meeting bank officials, but on December 7, 2019, the I-T department again issued him a notice asking him to pay tax of Rs 1.05 crore for the income he had earned in the year 2017-18 and said it would begin the recovery process if the tax was not paid in 30 days.
He approached the police saying fraudsters had created a fake bank account in his name using forged documents, showing him as the director of a private firm, and issued cheque payments of Rs 37 lakhs to the firm of the Rs 58 lakh deposited in the account from November to December 2016.