The Preventive Wing of CGST Gandhinagar had busted a GST scam of amounting to Rs 173 crore by claiming false input tax credit. A search was conducted at four primary companies and that companies came out to be shell companies. Officials said that Kalidas Panchal operated V K Enterprises at Sampad, Prantij in Himmatnagar. Similarly, Aasif Mehmood Sayyad ran Altra Trading Company at Vavol in Gandhinagar. Amitkumar Vinuprasad Pathak was allegedly running the same scam in via Patel Enterprise in Gandhinagar.