Telangana former CS Somesh Kumar is in trouble. Earlier his name was heard in a land-grabbing issue and that the land was purchased in the name of his wife. His name is also liked to the issues about the Dharani portal where many of them have lost the lands in the state of Telangana.
Now the issue is about the GST. Hyderabad’s CCS police have filed a case against former Telangana chief secretary, Somesh Kumar and two other senior commercial tax officers for alleged GST violations. As per the investigating officers, the tax evasion is said to be over Rs 1000 crores.
As per a forensic report, proprietary data of the commercial department was transferred to a third party without any authorization.
The FIR also names Sobhan Kumar, a IIT Hyderabad professor and Pilanto Technologies Pvt Ltd. On July 26, K Ravi Kanuri, the Joint Commissioner (CT), Central Computer Wing, Nampally had lodged a
complaint on the alleged GST fraud.
Somesh rose from the level of GHMC commissioner to the CS. He was later given the position of the special CS after his retirement. But his name is linked to various cases and he is now facing the heat.
Some enquiries are going on against him and he will be taken to task in the coming days. He was very close to the rulers and commanded lot of respect in the earlier Government.
