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Issues: Whether prosecution under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 and the Indian Penal Code could proceed simultaneously on the same facts, and whether anticipatory bail should be granted.
Analysis: The allegations disclosed wilful attempt to evade tax and non-payment of a substantial tax liability, attracting Section 74(2) of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002. The Court held that where the factual allegations also disclose the ingredients of cheating and criminal breach of trust, prosecution under the Penal Code is not barred merely because the same facts may also constitute an offence under a special fiscal statute. Reliance was placed on the principle that an act may constitute offences under two enactments, and the offender may be prosecuted under either or both, though not punished twice for the same offence. The Court further held that the material on record indicated a prima facie case of entrustment and dishonest withholding of money collected or payable towards tax, and that the gravity of the alleged evasion and the need to trace the transactions justified investigation.
Conclusion: Prosecution under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 and Sections 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code was held to be maintainable simultaneously, and anticipatory bail was refused.
Final Conclusion: The application was declined because the alleged tax evasion and connected Penal Code offences were found to be prima facie made out, and the Court held that the applicant was not entitled to pre-arrest protection.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the same transaction discloses distinct ingredients of an offence under a special statute and under the Indian Penal Code, simultaneous prosecution is permissible if the special enactment does not exclude the Penal Code offences.
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