CBI Court Sentences Seven, Including Former Tax Official and Policeman, in ₹2.38 Crore IT Refund Fraud

A special CBI court in Chennai has sentenced seven people, including a former Senior Tax Assistant of the Income Tax Department and a police inspector, to four years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a total fine of ₹2.4 lakh in an income tax refund fraud case.

The court found that the accused had fabricated income tax refunds by manipulating systems using forged documents and fake identities between June 2015 and August 2019, causing a loss of about ₹2.38 crore to the government.

The CBI had registered the case in 2019 and filed multiple charge sheets before trial.