Power to arrest under CGST act must be exercised with care: Gujarat HC

Vimal Yashwantgiri Goswami Vs. State of Gujarat (Gujarat High Court)

The powers of arrest under Section 69 of the Act, 2017 are to be exercised with lot of care and circumspection. Prosecution should normally be launched only after the adjudication is completed. To put it in other words, there must be in the first place a determination that a person is “liable to a penalty”. Till that point of time, the entire case proceeds on the basis that there must be an apprehended evasion of tax by the asse

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