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Punishment Under section 132Hon’ble HC(Gujarat), Idrish Yusufbhai Malvasi v. State of Gujarat & Ors to grant a periodic bail to the MD of M/s. Mishkat Agro Industries Private Limited.
who was arrested on charges of wrongfully availing of tax exemption by misapplying and misinterpreting the notices of exemption notifications provided by the Dept by deliberately using the company’s brand name & by willingly suppressing the fact/truth.
Idrish Yusufbhai Malvasi (“Applicant/Assessor”) is MD of M/s. Mishkat Agro Industries Private Limited who has been arrested for offenses punishable under Section 132(1)(a) of the CGST Act, via order dated October 29th, 2020, passed by the Superintendent (Prev.), Central Goods & Service Tax & C.
Excise (“Respondent No.2”), with the important claim that the tax exemption was incorrectly granted by misapplying and misinterpreting the notices of the exemption provided by the Dept by simply using the company’s brand name, on the goods and thus having them subject to Goods & Services Tax.
This is also stated that the Claimant has deliberately withheld the truth in order to benefit from the zero-rate exemption/exempt supplies and thus prevented a large number of Goods and services tax by wrongly invoking the advantage of Notification No. 2/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 28th June 2017, which can’t have been used in the light of Notification No. 1/2017-Central Tax dated 28th June 2017, as modified.
The Claimant filed a periodic bail in accordance with the above order issued by Respondent No. 2.
In relation to punishable offenses under Section 132(1)(a) of the Central Goods & Services Act, if regular bail could be issued to the Assessee?
Hon’ble Gujarat HC, R/Criminal Misc. Application No. 18320 of 2020 agreed on 10th December 2020 to be observed & held as follows:
(a) Do not place undue liberty or misuse liberty;
(b) not act in a way that is injurious to the interests of the prosecution;
(c) surrender of the passport, if there are any, to the district court within one week.
(d) cannot leave India without the prior authorization of the court concerned;
(e) furnish the current residence address to the Investigator as well as to the Court at the time of the implementation of the bond and would not change the residence without the specific authorization of the concerned trial court;
“Punishment for such offenses-
(a) supply any goods or services, or both, without the issue of any invoice, in breach of the laws of this Act or of the rules laid down therein, with a purpose to escape tax;
would be punishable –
(i) in cases where the amount of illegal evasion of taxes or the amount of ITC incorrectly used or the refunds incorrectly taken exceeds 5,00,00,000 Rupees, with a period of Up to 5 years’ imprisonment and along with a fine;
(ii) in situations where the amount of tax escape or the amount of ITC incorrectly used or the amount of refund incorrectly imposed exceeds 200,00,000 Rs. but does not exceed 500,00,000 Rs., with imprisonment for a period of up to 3 years and a fine;
(iii) in the case of any other violation where the amount of tax eluded or the amount of ITC incorrectly used or the amount of refund incorrectly imposed exceeds 100,00,000 but does not exceed 200,00,000 Rs., with imprisonment for a period of one year and a fine;
(iv) In the case where the offense referred to in clause (f) or clause (g) or clause (j) is committed or abets, the person would be punished with imprisonment for a period which may be extended to 6 months or with a fine or along with both.”
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