Senior journalist Mahesh Langa, in judicial custody in a case of alleged Items and Providers Tax (GST) evasion, was booked once more on Tuesday — this time by Gandhinagar police in a case of alleged possession of confidential authorities paperwork.
Langa, a senior assistant editor with The Hindu, was booked on costs of possession of paperwork associated to the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB), mentioned Ravi Teja Vasamsetty, Superintendent of Police (SP), Gandhinagar.
Police mentioned the paperwork had been recovered from Langa’s possession throughout his arrest within the GST fraud case. The SP, nevertheless, declined to touch upon the sections below which Langa had been booked within the contemporary FIR.
In the meantime, the Gandhinagar Police, on the idea of those paperwork, reached the GMB workplace Tuesday and carried out searches to seek out the supply that allegedly leaked the paperwork to Langa.
SP Vasamsetty mentioned, “An FIR was filed in opposition to Langa at
Sector-7 police station for possession of the GMB paperwork. At the moment, he’s the only real accused within the case. We try to learn the way he obtained these paperwork.”
In the meantime, the Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Department Tuesday arrested 5 extra individuals within the ongoing investigation into what’s being referred to as a nationwide racket of evading GST by a community of 220 shell firms, lots of them based mostly in Gujarat.
DCP Ajit Rajian mentioned the 5 males arrested Tuesday, Adil Kadar Khokhar, Kadar alias Navdi Rafiqbhai Khokhar, Akil Anubhai Pathan, Shahrukh Rafiqbhai Rangrej, and Sarfaraz Mustufa Chauhan, are residents of Bhavnagar.
With the newest arrests, the full variety of individuals nabbed on this case has gone as much as 13. The primary folks to have been arrested within the case had been Langa, Aijaz alias Maldar, Abdulkader alias Bapu, and Jyotish Magan Gondaliya.
On October 13, Faizal Munaf Shaikh, Irfan alias Padu Sattar Jethwa, Jignesh Himmatlal Desai, and Paresh Pradeep Dodiya had been arrested.
