Romesh Sharma convicted for evading Rs.500 million tax

March 28, 2008

New Delhi: A city court Friday convicted Romesh Sharma, the alleged front man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, for evading Rs.500 million income tax in 1996.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Kanwaljeet Arora held Sharma guilty of not depositing the dues amounting to Rs.500 million in income tax.

The court held him guilty under sections 276-C (2) (wilful attempt to evade tax) and 277 (false statement in declaration) of the Income Tax Act.

The court would pronounce the quantum of sentence Monday.

Sharma can be sent to seven years of rigorous imprisonment under these sections along with a fine.

"The Income Tax Department has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt against Romesh Sharma. Thereby I convicted him for these offences under the Income Tax Act," the ACMM said in his 19-page judgement.

Last month, Sharma was awarded life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1999 murder of fashion designer Kunjum Buddhiraja at his farm house. (IANS)

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Scientist gets 2-year RI over forged caste certificate

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Posted online: Sunday , February 03, 2008 at 01:26:58
Updated: Sunday , February 03, 2008 at 01:44:14

New Delhi, February 2 A court today sentenced a 45-year-old scientist to two years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) for cheating the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) authorities by furnishing a forged caste certificate for securing a job. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Kanwaljeet Arora held Sher Singh, working as Grade-B scientist at NPL, guilty under Sections 420 (cheating) and 471 (using forged document as genuine) of IPC. He also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on him.

“Keeping in view the facts and circumstances, I am of the opinion that the prosecution has been able to prove its charges against Singh and accordingly sentenced him to two years’ RI which best suited to his crime,” the ACMM said in a recent order.

The CBI alleged in the chargesheet that after getting a computer engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering in 1995, Singh cheated NPL authorities for getting appointment as scientist-B, under ST category, on the basis of his forged certificate. Singh allegedly got the job solely on the relaxed criteria, as he was the only candidate who had applied for the job under ST category. It was purportedly issued by Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Shahadara in 1992.

Singh, in his defence, failed to prove on record that he belongs to Scheduled Tribe category. After evading arrest for a long time, Singh was finally apprehended on February 2004, at Raja Sansi Airport in Amritsar.

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