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Crime branch's cyber cell arrested a man, Jagat Parikh, on Friday for filing fakeincome tax returns on behalf of BJ Medical College. On interrogation he revealed that he used to have the contract to file IT returns on behalf of the institute for two years. He tried to frame the institute by filing fake returns to exact revenge for being removed.
The accountant of the college, Shankar Patel, filed a complaint with crime branch in this regard. Patel told cops that the institute had given the new contract to file its IT returns to chartered accountant Bharat Pandya.
"According to the applicable laws, the institute filed quarterly returns. On December 12, 2012, when the chartered accountant went to file the returns, IT officers told Pandya that they had already been filed," said crime branch officials.
The matter confounded Pandya and the institute authorities till March 2013, when Pandya went to file the next set of returns and faced the same problem - the returns had already been filed. The matter was then taken to crime branch officials.
After investigating for a while, police sub inspector of cyber cell Taral Bhatt solved the mystery. "The move aimed to harm the financial status of the institute. On investigation we found Jagat to be at theheart of the mystery returns being punctually filed. Jagat tried to file fake returns so that when the institute filed its returns later, there would be confusion that would draw the I-T department's attention and spark a probe. This would put the college's financial status under a cloud," said assistant commissioner of police K N Patel.
Jagat, according to crime branch officials, had an axe to grind against the institute. "For two years prior to Pandya taking over, Parikh filed the returns for the institute. The institute had learnt that Parikh was not a chartered accountant himself but used to outsource the job. This caused the institute authorities to discontinue Parikh's services. Parikh then tried to defame Pandya by filing fake IT returns," said a crime branch official.
Bhatt said: "Parikh could carry out this as he still had all the information concerning the institute. The institute, after ending the contract with Parikh, had not taken back its income tax data from him. This data had been misused by Parikh later." (Times of India)
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