A startling incident has emerged from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, where a cook helper named Ravindra Singh Chauhan, employed at a hotel, received a tax notice from the Income Tax Department demanding 46 crore rupees. The unexpected notice has upended his life, especially considering his monthly salary is only between 8,000 to 10,000 rupees. Ravindra Singh Chauhan is baffled by how this situation arose.
Ravindra Singh Chauhan, a resident of Bhind, asserts he only works as a cook. He stated that his account never saw transactions exceeding 3 lakh rupees in a year. However, he was accused of transactions totaling 46 crore rupees. He obtained his bank statements for the past five years from the Punjab National Bank branch in Bhind. The statement showed total transactions under 3 lakh rupees, which seemed odd to him. Due to this suspicion, he requested the bank manager to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Further investigation revealed that a fraudulent account existed in Ravindra Singh Chauhan’s name in Uttam Nagar, Delhi. Surprisingly, this account still held 12.5 lakh rupees. The inquiry revealed that during his time at a toll company, his supervisor had taken his documents under the guise of PF and opened the fake account. It was through this account that the massive transactions occurred.
After lodging complaints with the police station and other agencies without any assistance, Ravindra Singh Chauhan has now approached the Gwalior High Court. It has also come to light that two accounts are open in Ravindra’s name in Bhind and Delhi. The Delhi account is associated with a trading company. The outcome of his appeal to the High Court and whether he will receive relief from the Income Tax Department’s hefty notice remains to be seen.