CBDT Dismisses Truant Commissioner
MR. SV Jadhav, Commissioner of Income Tax, Hyderabad took several spells of leave from 3.11.2009 to 16.7.2010 after which he neither joined duty nor applied for leave. The CCIT recommended that he be treated as absconding and on unauthorized leave. A Show Cause Notice was issued to Jadhav on 13.5.2011 as to why disciplinary action cannot be initiated against him. After several letters and inquiries, for the last five years during which period, he did not join duty, Board has decided to dismiss him from service.
By an order issued yesterday, the Board (President) dismissed him from service, which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment under the Government.
CBDT Order in F.No.A-24012/06/2001-Ad.VI(A)., Dated: August 02 2016
It is no doubt fair and in the national interest to check tax evasion with a firm hand; but it is neither fair nor in the national interest that the law should be made to bear hard on a large number of honest taxpayers merely in order to get at a few dishonest ones. It is not right that so much should be inflicted on so many in order to rope in a few.
What is wrong with India is the pathological obsession displayed by the lawmakers who frame laws only with the tax evader in mind, regardless of the enormous inconvenience and harassment to the far larger section of honest taxpayers. A departmental store which is wholly preoccupied with prevention of shoplifting is a sure candidate for stagnation.
Nani Palkhiwala
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