₹32.28 crore GST arrest rests on one report
A report says Hyderabad’s CGST Anti-Evasion Branch arrested an unnamed businessman. No case-specific official document or court record was found to confirm it.
The reported arrest has not been matched by a case-specific official record in the material reviewed.
A report published on September 25 says the CGST Anti-Evasion Branch of the Secunderabad Commissionerate arrested an unnamed Hyderabad businessman in an alleged ₹32.28 crore input tax credit fraud case. The report says the alleged transactions involved TMT bars, steel pipes and tubes, and invoices from firms described as non-existent, non-functional or holding cancelled GST registrations.
That is the report’s account, not an independently confirmed official record. No case-specific CGST or CBIC press release, arrest memo, remand order or court document was found in the available material. The businessman and company were not identified, and the report carries no named official quotation. Even the ₹32.28 crore figure is not clarified as allegedly availed ITC, utilised ITC, tax evasion or a provisional estimate.
GST Council material explains that invoices without actual supply can be used in fraudulent ITC claims, but it does not confirm this Hyderabad case. The department has not, in the material reviewed, published the sections invoked, evidence cited, recovery made or court status. For now, the arrest is a single-report claim wearing an official-sounding coat.