Our Correspondent
Fatehgarh Sahib, Dec 15
A team of the Cyber Crime Cell of the Gujarat Police has arrested two persons from the industrial town Mandi Gobindgarh for allegedly being involved in a GST scam worth crores.
Mandi Gobindgarh SHO Gurdev Singh said the Gujarat Police had conducted a raid on Subhash Nagar and Shashtri Nagar area of Mandi Gobindgarh town and arrested Ahmad Ali and Jatin Verma. A case had been registered at the PS Cyber Crime, Badodra Range, IG Office, Gujarat, under Sections 406 and 420 of the IPC and 66C and 66D of the IT Act for Rs 2.5-crore GST scam.
Sources said both of the accused had hacked the billing account of a business house of Gujarat and issued bills worth crores from the account of that firm. A Gujarat businessman had lodged a complaint with the Gujarat Police Cyber Crime. During investigation, the police chased the accused and reached local Subhash Nagar and arrested the accused. The sources said the police recovered a large number of mobile SIMs, documents and other goods during the search of their hideouts.
2 held in Rs 2.5-cr GST scam
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