HC pulls up I-T dept in Chandrasekhar case

The Madras High Court has pulled up the I-T department for the manner in which it filed the counter in a case related to the seizure of a car which reportedly belonged to T T V Dhinakaran's aide Sukesh Chandrasekhar, arrested in the EC bribery case.

Justice PN Prakash set aside the order of the Judicial Magistrate who directed the Assistant Director of Income Tax (Investigation), Bengaluru, to produce the car before the court.

In his order, the judge said "on a reading of the counter filed by the Income Tax Department before the Magistrate, it is shorn of even minimum particulars and this court strongly records its displeasure and the cavalier manner in which the counter has been filed by the Income Tax Department before the Judicial Magistrate."