THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Vigilance court here seeking a probe against former Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, former Taxes Secretary T Mara Pandian, Commercial Taxes Deputy Commissioner Muralidharan, and cashew dealers Abdul Salam and Rajkumar in the Central Sales Tax (CST) fraud committed by cashew dealers. The case has been posted for consideration on December 31.
D Venugopal Nambiar, an educational activist here, filed the complaint. Express had reported on November 30 that the LDF Government under cover of a special package to revive cashew industry condoned the tax fraud by the cashew dealers resulting in loss amounting to several crores of rupees to the state exchequer. Venugopal Nambiar said this report prompted him to approach the court seeking a probe.
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, while dismissing the revision petition in the case, had ruled that it did not want to be a party to the undesirable practice of the government granting exemption to the dealers who allegedly committed fraud.
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