Court adjourns tax evasion cases against Punjab CM, his son

LUDHIANA: A local court on Saturday adjourned the alleged tax evasion cases registered by the income tax (I-T) department against chief minister Amarinder Singh and his son Raninder Singh. The next date of hearing of the case in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate P S Kaleka is on December 20.
The income tax department had filed a case of alleged income tax evasion against Captain Amarinder Singh whereas it had registered two other cases against his son Raninder Singh.
The counsel for income tax department Rakesh Gupta said that all the cases were adjourned for December 20. He added that the case against Captain Amarinder Singh under Section 277 (false statement of verification) of the IT Act and two cases against Raninder Singh under section 276-C (evasion of tax) of IT Act and under Section 277 of the act are expected to be heard on that date.
The IT counsel said that the case is at a stage for consideration to summon or not to summon the accused.
The case
The complaint against CM was filed by the I-T department under Section 277 (false statement in verification) of the Income Tax Act and several sections of the Indian Penal Code
His son Raninder Singh is booked in two cases— under Section 277 (false statement of verification) of the IT Act and another under Section 276-C (evasion of tax) of the act.
The complaint, filed by assistant director of income tax department Amanpreet Kaur Walia on December 2, 2016, charges Amarinder with giving a false statement in verification along with omission in giving information to a public servant.
He has also been charged with furnishing false information, giving a false statement under oath, obstructing a public servant in discharging his functions and giving false evidence
In its complaint, the I-T department has claimed that Amarinder had been concealing details of the foreign assets owned by his son Raninder Singh against whom the department has filed two complaints.
The department had “found” Amarinder to be the discretionary beneficiary of foreign-based Jacaranda Trust and also a beneficiary in other properties abroad which are owned by Raninder