IITH offers to back TS CT officials in GST returns scam probe

Responding to the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture G Kishan Reddy’s concern, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad stated on Wednesday that it will extend all possible support to the Telangana Commercial Taxes (CT) officials in the investigation into the recent GST returns scam unearthed by the department and continue to provide all information as requested from time to time.
Kishan Reddy on Tuesday has expressed serious concern on the role of Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) in the massive GST returns scam unearthed by Telangana Commercial Taxes department running into over Rs 1,000 crore.
Telangana government has sanctioned a project to the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) on “Big data analytics and value added data tax data” on July 12, 2017, initially for one year and extended each year with the latest extension being until May 2024.
The Principal Investigator (PI) and the project team has been continuously providing analytical reports, periodically to the Telangana government, based on the data provided by the government officials.
IITH has executed this project with sincerity, like any other sponsored research project and will extend all possible support to the CT officials and will continue to provide all information as requested from time to time.