Delhi Service Tax Commissionerate Arrests CFO of an Aviation Company for Evasion of Service Tax
Delhi Service Tax Commissionerate arrested the Chief Financial Officer(CFO) of an Aviation Company on last Saturday, 18th January, 2014 for evasion of service tax amounting to more than Rs. one crore. The Company provides helicopter chartering services. The concerned company is also suspected to have fraudulently availed CENVAT Credit of more than Rs. 30 lakhs. In addition, the party is also facing departmental proceedings in a Show Cause Notice for Rs. 3.9 crore for short payment of Service Tax, for a previous period. This is the second arrest by Delhi Service Tax Commissionerate in the current fiscal.
Cabinet approves inclusion of Jains as a minority community
Inclusion of Jains as a minority community under Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Act, 1992
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval forinclusion of Jains as a minority under Section 2 (c ) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992 and the Attorney General through the Ministry of Law and Justice has opined that this would be neither be illegal nor unconstitutional. The Cabinet approved the inclusion of Jains in the list of notified minority communities under Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992 pending the outcome of court cases in addition to the five communities already notified as minorities under Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.These communities are Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and Zoroastrians (Parsis)
Background:
Under Section 2(c) of National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Act, 1992, five religious communities; Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis are declared as minority communities through a Government Notification issued in October 1993. Thereafter, the Ministry of Minority Affairs has been receiving regular representations and RTI applications for inclusion of Jains as a minority community under this Section.
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