[Reader-list] Defaulter Geelani asked to pay Rs 1.73 crore as IT dues

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Defaulter Geelani asked to pay Rs 1.73 crore as IT dues *Sumir Kaul - PTI*

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***New Delhi, Oct 27 * Income Tax department has asked hardline Kashmiri
separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani to file Rs 1.73 crore in tax dues
over a period when he had not filed his returns after rejecting his appeal.

The IT sleuths, which had swooped on residences of Geelani and his family
members in 2002 and seized valuable items including a diamond-studded watch
gifted by Pakistan Government, had raised a tax demand of over Rs 1.5 crore.

Geelani challenged the demand and approached the Commissioner of Income Tax
(appeals) for review of the case and also sought a waiver, saying he did not
earn anything other than the pension from Government of Jammu and Kashmir
and from agriculture land.

The case dragged on for nearly three years and recently the appeal was
dismissed after which he was asked to deposit Rs 1. - (Agencies)

*Similar Report of 2004* - http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?205476