Director General of Inland Revenue Department (IRD) Chudamani Sharma, who stands accused of misappropriating revenue by settling taxes in a questionable way, has said that the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) made a mockery of law by arresting him.
Director General of Inland Revenue Department (IRD) Chudamani Sharma, who stands accused of misappropriating revenue by settling taxes in a questionable way, has said that the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) made a mockery of law by arresting him.
He made such comment during a brief response to media when he was presented before the Special Court on Sunday. “The government formed the commission according to the law and the move to investigate the commission when it is abiding by the government’s order amounts to disrespect to law,” said Sharma.
The court will extend the remand of Sharma.
The CIAA arrested Chudamani Sharma on Friday from his Lazimpat office on the charge of misappropriating billions of rupees, as a member of the Tax Settlement Commission (TSC), and on the suspicion that he could destroy the evidence against him.
The TSC, formed in February 2015, had run into controversy after a report of the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) in April called into question the Rs 21 billion tax exemption granted to various enterprises.
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