Mathura: A rickshaw puller went to the cops here on Sunday after the Income Tax department served him a notice to cough up over ₹ 3 crore here in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
A resident of Amar Colony in the Bakalpur area in Mathura, Pratap Singh lodged a complaint at the Highway police station and claimed fraud after he received the IT department notice.
According to Station House Office (SHO) Anuj Kumar, no case was lodged based on Singh’s complaint but the cops will look into the matter, reported news agency PTI.
Meanwhile, Singh uploaded a video clip on social media narrating the sequence of events.
According to Singh, he applied for a PAN card at the Jan Suvidha Kendra in Bakalpur, owned by Tej Prakash Upadhyay, on March 15 as his bank had asked him to submit it.
Subsequently, he received a coloured photocopy of the PAN card from one Sanjai Singh of Bakalpur.
Being illiterate, Singh failed to differentiate between an original PAN card and a coloured photocopy of the same, said the rickshaw puller in the video clip.
He had to run from pillar to post for about three months to get his PAN card done.
Singh, meanwhile, said he received a call from IT officials on October 19 and was subsequently served a notice, asking him to pay ₹ 3,47,54,896.
According to him, the officials told him that someone had impersonated him and obtained a GST number on his name for running a business and the turnover of the trader for 2018-19 was ₹ 43,44,36,201.
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