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The Income Tax department has attached salary and other emoluments of a Punjab minister for his alleged tax default, a charge he termed as one due to “wrong assessment”.
The IT department has served a notice to the government directing that salary and other emoluments of Agriculture Minister Sucha Singh Langha have been attached for his “failure” to deposit tax to the tune of Rs 25 lakh, the department sources said on Tuesday.
Langha, who had moved before the IT Tribunal said his tax was wrongly assessed by the department. The state finance department, however, said his salary would now be deposited in the account of IT department.
The development pertains to a case registered against Langha by the state vigilance bureau during the previous Congress government for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income as PWD minister between 1997-2002 in the SAD-BJP regime.
The minister was charged with amassing assets worth Rs 12.60 crore in parts of the state. Langha, a SAD MLA from Dhariwal constituency in Gurdaspur district, however, said the tax had been wrongly assessed on a reference by vigilance department during the previous Amarinder Singh regime.
