Income Tax Commissioner alleges...
AN an Income Tax Commissioner has in a sworn affidavit before the Central Administrative tribunal has alleged that his transfer was ‘to punish him for not heeding to the unlawful expectations' of higher officials who ‘conveyed' to him ‘repeatedly… to go soft on the tax evaders and money launderers'. The Commissioner has also named the former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the tax evasion case.
These are revealed by S. Gurumurthy in an article in the New Indian Express yesterday.