Man arrested for GST fraud worth Rs 79 crore in Pune

The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Pune Zonal Unit, arrested a man on October 26 in Mumbai for evasion of GST amounting to Rs 79 crore. The accused identified as Modsingh Padamsingh Sodha has been sent to 14 days judicial custody by a Pune court, reported news agency ANI.

On October 24, a Chartered Accountant (CA) and two of his associates were arrested for allegedly evading Rs 50 crore of Goods and Services Tax (GST) from Noida. The three were arrested from their office in Noida Sector 63 and were produced before a special chief judicial magistrate court in Meerut. They were remanded to judicial custody after having been booked under 2017's GST Act's Section 132 (1) A.

Further details awaited