SC nod to IT dept to inspect doc seized by CBI from Hindalco
26 July 2014 6:39 AM IST
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Income Tax Department to inspect documents seized by the CBI during its Coalgate probe from the premises of Hindalco for carrying out any bonafide investigation under tax law.
The bench paved the way for the tax department to inspect the documents which CBI denied to it on the ground that the apex court by its 8 May 2013 order had barred the agency from sharing any material with anybody.
However, a bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha clarified that its order in which it had restrained CBI, which is investigating the coal blocks allocation scam, from sharing any information and documents pertaining to its probe with anybody without court’s approval, would not come in the way of IT authority.
‘The 8 May, 2013 order shall not come in the way of IT authority of competent rank to inspect the documents seized by CBI in connection with the coal block allocation scam for any bonafide investigation under the Income Tax Act’.
Allowing the application argued by Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, the bench, also comprising justices M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, said for any probe or investigation under the Income Tax Act, the IT department can take copies of those documents for any other case also. The IT department had moved the apex court seeking its directions to CBI to allow its officers to inspect the documents.
The bench paved the way for the tax department to inspect the documents which CBI denied to it on the ground that the apex court by its 8 May 2013 order had barred the agency from sharing any material with anybody.
However, a bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha clarified that its order in which it had restrained CBI, which is investigating the coal blocks allocation scam, from sharing any information and documents pertaining to its probe with anybody without court’s approval, would not come in the way of IT authority.
‘The 8 May, 2013 order shall not come in the way of IT authority of competent rank to inspect the documents seized by CBI in connection with the coal block allocation scam for any bonafide investigation under the Income Tax Act’.
Allowing the application argued by Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, the bench, also comprising justices M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, said for any probe or investigation under the Income Tax Act, the IT department can take copies of those documents for any other case also. The IT department had moved the apex court seeking its directions to CBI to allow its officers to inspect the documents.
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