SC to examine powers of tax authority |
A vacation bench comprising Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose issued notice to the Central government and sought its reply on a batch of pleas challenging the provision of arrest under the CGST Act. The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday agreed to examine the powers of tax authorities to arrest an individual for Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion. The bench also asked all the high courts to keep in mind, while dealing with grant of anticipatory bail in GST evasion cases, its earlier order by which it had upheld the Telangana High Court verdict which had said that individuals can`t be given protection from arrest in such cases. The bench listed the batch of petitions before a three-judge bench to decide the question of law on the power of arrest.
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