The Sessions Court, New Delhi has denied bail to Rajesh Jindal, who was arrested by the department for issuing invoices of GST Input Tax Credit without the actual supply of goods. The firms were opened in the name of poor less educated persons and were operated by Sh. Rajesh Jindal with the help of his associate Sh. Adesh Jain. Accordingly, search operations were conducted at various premises.
The modus operandi adopted by Sh. Rajesh Jindal is that he used to lure poor people into signing various documents and he used to take their Aadhar Card, PAN Card, bank account’s and Aadhar card’s registered mobile number’s sim card for using the same for OTP verification for identity verification of the poor person and making them proprietors of firms which were registered in GST and against which he used to pay them consideration ranging from Rs. 12,000/per month to Rs. 15,000/per month.
Thousands of invoices of multiple firms in the name of poor less educated person were recovered from the office of Sh. Rajesh Jindal & along with him, Sh. Adesh Jain was arrested on next day of the search.
The arrest was followed by investigation against 130 firms for availing & utilizing such credit on the strength of invoices issued by Rajesh Jindal.
Several follow up searches in Wazirpur, Pitampura, Rohini, Nangloi, Narela, Bawana area of Delhi were conducted and the nexus of such invoices without the actual supply of goods proved to be a Pan India Scam worth hundreds of Crores without the actual supply of goods.
After getting bail from the Court, Rajesh Jindal threatened several key witnesses and stopped the firms/units who availed such credit on the strength of invoices issued by him from paying tax.
Before the Sessions Court, Sr. Standing Counsel Sh. Harpreet Singh from the side of GST department.
The Court took a strong view against such GST evasion and canceled the bail of Sh. Rajesh Jindal on Tuesday 18.12.2018 sending a strong signal to tax evaders and persons involved without the actual supply of goods.
The Court considered the fact that there are serious allegations against the accused including wrongful availment of credit worth 27 crores and threatening the witnesses.
More searches and more arrests could now take place as learned from Sources.
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