₹15,000 income, ₹975 crore IT notice: Surat company fraudulently names tailor as ‘diamond director’; what t

Download Home Video Search Watch Top News Local National Cricket Business Originals International Tech & Science Entertainment Lifestyle Sports Utility Career West Bengal Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan English News Local Gujarat Surat Surat Fraud Case: Tailor Gets 975 Crore Tax Notice | Bogus Company Scam ₹15,000 income, ₹975 crore IT notice: Surat company fraudulently names tailor as ‘diamond director’; what to do if this happens to you? Surat 1 day ago Copy link Deepakbhai Kletwala, owner of the workshop For 62-year-old tailor Rekhraj Thada, who earns barely ₹15,000 a month by operating a sewing machine from morning till evening and supports his family, a circular from the Income Tax Department came as the biggest shock of his life. The elderly man, who has never even set foot on the soil of Gujarat, has been shown as a director of a bogus company in Surat and directly slapped with a tax recovery notice of ₹975 crore. The fraudsters misused the poor tailor's documents to carry out hawala transactions worth ₹2500 crore on paper.

When a Bhaskar reporter reached the registered address of this bogus company to ascertain the facts, it turned out to be not a diamond company, but a common workshop that repairs zari and ice gola machines.