The government has initiated a drive against GST defaulters worth over Rs4,500 crore. It has arrested more than wo dozen fraudsters in just four days. The officials have said that this GST drive has been started by DGGI after a high-level meeting at the department of revenue on November 7 took place highlighting the quantum of persons engaged in fake invoices. This crackdown covers 28 cities: Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Ludhiana, Chennai, Nagpur, Kolkata, Gurugram, Jind, Ballabhgarh, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Bhilai, Jodhpur, Hyderabad, Mathura, Raipur, Visakhapatnam, Jamshedpur, Patna, Imphal, Meerut, Guwahati, Pune, Siliguri, Bhopal and Bhubaneshwar. The DGGI has said that 25 people have been arrested and some 350 cases have been booked for issuing fake invoices against 1,180 entities for availing and passing on the input tax credit (ITC).
