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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...
ED summons PSPCL CMD, director, others in case against Punjab minister Sanjeev AroraThe Enforcement Directorate has summoned senior IAS officer Basant Garg and PSPCL Director Harsharan Kaur Trehan for questioning. They are ...
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...
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...
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...
After Benami ruling, all eyes on 'retrospectivity' of Black Money LawWhile the I-T Act can be used to claim tax on 10-year old undisclosed income, the Black Money (BM) Act empowers the tax department to go af...
I-T takes over Mehul Choksi's assets in 1st Benami law confiscationThe assets linked to Choksi were provisionally attached last year under the BTPA after a probe by the Mumbai IT investigation wing ascertai...
SC ruling on retro effect of Benami Law keenly awaitedA plethora of transactions like cash transfers, property deals, and share issuances have come under the lens with the invocation of the Ben...
Cabinet approves Adjudicating Authority for speedy disposal of benami casesThe decision was taken at the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at press briefin...
Anti-money laundering body gets new member after 5-month delayVinodanand Jha, an Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) officer of the 1983 batch, has been appointed as the Member of the authority from th...
Property in wife’s name not benami if valid funds used: Delhi High CourtSetting aside a trial court order that treated one such property as benami, HC said it was to be proved during trial whether the property w...
How to kill an idea: What went wrong with Modi's plan to go after benami propertiesMore than 780 benami asset attachments worth crores of rupees run the risk of being invalidated in the absence of an authority.
Benami attachments worth crores may fall flat as no authority for 1.5 yearsThere is real worry that these high-value cases may get "time-barred" or invalidated as benami attachment orders have to be confirmed withi...
Income Tax Dept attaches 900 benami properties worth over Rs 3,500 crore: Finance Ministry"Income Tax Department has attached properties worth more than Rs 3,500 crore, including immovable properties of more than Rs 2,900 crore, ...
Benami properties worth over Rs 800 crore attached: CentreProvisional attachment of properties under the Act has been done in more than 230 cases," Santosh Kumar Gangwar said.
Is the Benami Bill targeted at corruption and black money futile?Apart from the provision declaring benami transactions illegal, the law also provided for the confiscation of property by the government.