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Rs 70 crore money laundering case: ED gets 'godman' Ashok Kharat's custody till May 26Self-proclaimed spiritual leader Ashok Kharat has been remanded to Enforcement Directorate custody until May 26 in connection with an alleg...
Informal ‘benami’ investments may now face confiscation; Supreme Court ruling puts family property deals under scannerWhere family arrangements are involved, they must comply with legal conditions, including joint ownership where required. Informal arrangem...
SC order turns up tax heat on old benami transactionsThe Supreme Court has ruled that tax authorities can retroactively apply the benami law to confiscate assets from transactions predating 20...
PM Modi empowered ED to cleanse cancer of financial crimes; not to target anyone: MoS Pankaj ChaudharyPankaj Chaudhary, the Minister of State for Finance, called the central agency the "nation's shield against financial crimes", stating that...
ED raids 11 locations across Punjab in PMLA case linked to former DIG Harcharan Singh BhullarThe Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at eleven locations in Punjab. These searches are linked to former Punjab DIG Harcharan Sing...
ED has attached proceeds of crime worth Rs 64,920 cr in bank fraud cases: FM Nirmala SitharamanIn the Lok Sabha, Nirmala Sitharaman said the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA), 2018 was enacted to deter economic offenders from eva...
Not naming beneficial owner does not invalidate I-T attachment order: Anti-benami authorityThe Adjudicating Authority confirmed a land assets attachment order issued by the Income Tax department in 2023. The order involved land pa...
I-T dept attaches Rs 1,600-cr 'benami' assets of SasikalaNine properties, located in Chennai, Puducherry & Coimbatore, were procured soon after demonetisation in November 2016 when PM Modi declare...
I-T dept attaches Lutyens bungalow worth Rs 208-crore in benami case against ex-UP engineerAn order for provisional attachment of the property was issued by the department under the anti-benami assets law.
How new law changes the definition of benami assetsA person booking a property in the name of her father can find herself on the wrong side of the law if tax officials are convinced that fat...
Benami assets: Why Modi has pressed cold start on what could be a big-bang moveCrackdown on benami assets will have the high visibility of note ban without any impact on common man. It can be more helpful to Modi in po...
Benami assets: I-T scanning profiles of property registered over Rs 30 lakhAction against illicit asset holders is set to intensify under the provisions of the anti-Benami Act. The taxman has already attached 621 p...
Benami assets worth Rs 1833 crore attached; CBDT's strong actionOfficial data, updated till October, shows that assets worth Rs 1,833 crore have been attached by the I-T department, for which it issued o...
Lalu family Benami assets case: I-T issues attachment orderThe department has said these alleged benami assets bear a "deed" value of about Rs 9.32 crore but the taxman has estimated their current m...
I-T department attaches Rs 300-crore benami assets of Chagan Bhujbal, familyWhile the total cost of the attached 'benami' assets has been valued at over Rs 223 crore, the department has said the "market value" of th...
Benami assets: I-T registers 230 cases, attaches assets worth Rs 55 croreViolations of the Act, made operational from November 1 last year, attract a heavy penalty and rigorous jail term up to seven years.
- A Property in husband's name would be Benami no more
Women will be able to acquire assets in name of their husbands without running the risk of the property being declared benami.