DGGI Cracks Down on Rs. 79 Crore Tax Evasion Network: Chartered Accountant and Advocate in Custody

A chartered accountant (CA) and an advocate from Kanpur have been arrested on allegations of tax evasion amounting to Rs 79.18 crore. Both of them were arrested by a team of Directorate General GST Intelligence (DGGI) officials from Sonepat district in Haryana due to the manipulation of carpet billing.

The accused were presented before the court of remand magistrate, who sent them into judicial custody and scheduled their next hearing for October 15.

Special prosecutor Ambarish Tandon added that Tushar Raheja from Sonepat was arrested last year on September 13 because the officials had determined that Raheja had evaded taxes worth Rs 5.90 crore using fake bills.

However, during the investigations, two individuals were also connected to the tax evasion scheme. The two were identified as Lokesh, alias Lokesh Hasiza, a chartered accountant from Sonepat, and Aman Jindal, an advocate also from Sonepat. Both had claimed input tax credit (ITC) under the names of fraud firms, and together they have evaded a total of Rs 79.18 crore in taxes.

Meanwhile, additional sessions judge, Kanpur Nagar, Azad Singh, on Saturday rejected the interim bail application of Anand Prakasham, a resident of Bengaluru, who has been charged with forgery of Rs 85 crore.

As per ADGC Vinod Tripathi, in 2021, JK Enterprises Ltd. and Additive 3D Private Ltd. (EOS) Singapore collaborated to create Newmesh Labs Private Ltd. Anand Prakasham posed as the country head of Bharat of the EOS company and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU).

Newmesh discovered that they had lost approximately Rs 85 crore. Upon investigation, EOS Singapore confirmed that Anand Prakasham was neither their representative nor authorized to act on their behalf.

Prakasham had been escaping since March 2025. Parthokar, the general manager, filed a report at the Pheel Khana police station. The judge noted the seriousness of the matter and that the accused had not cooperated with the police, indicating serious cheating, which consequently led to the rejection of the bail application.