The Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, G. Kishan Reddy, has expressed serious concern over the alleged involvement of certain officials of the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) in a massive GST returns scam totaling over ₹1,000 crore. Mr. Kishan Reddy has written to the Union Minister for Education, Dharmendra Pradhan, urging him to investigate the role of the IIT-H officials in the scam. It is reported that IIT-H had an agreement with the Telangana Commercial Taxes department to provide IT support, but the data was not shared with the department and was accessible to select officials only. The department has initiated an inquiry into why the IIT-H official did not report the tax evasion fraud, despite being aware of it, and why certain data was masked from the tax officials. The IIT-H official admitted to following “oral instructions” to hide key data inputs.
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