2025 (7) TMI 1775

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....APARESH KUMAR SINGH) Sri Kailash Nath P.S.S., learned counsel for the petitioner. Sri B. Mukherjee, learned counsel representing Sri Gadi Praveen Kumar, learned Deputy Solicitor General of India, for respondent No. 1. Sri N. Praveen Reddy, learned counsel for respondent Nos. 2 to 4. 2. The rejection of an application dated 17.10.2024 under Section 138(1)(b) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as, "the Act"), requesting for information relating to Sri Mothukuri Venkateshwar Sharma in respect of the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2013, by the office of the Principal Director of Income Tax (Investigation), Hyderabad, on the ground that the information sought for does not involve any public interest has b....

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.... 07-05-2021with allegations against one Shri Mothukuri Venkateshwara Sharma (MV Sharma). Relevant points of the complaints are stated below: a) Shri MV Sharma retired as Assistant Director in the Endowments Department of State Government of Telangana. He had worked as EO of Peddamma Talli Temple in Jubilee Hills. b) Shri NV Venkateswaralu was married to Ms. Sindhu Sharma, eldest daughter of Shri MV Sharma on 02-08-2012. It was further stated that marital disputes had arisen between the couple and FIR No. 223/2019 was registered on 27-04-2016 in Women Police Station, CCS, Hyderabad. c) Later vide DVC no. 365 of 2019 filed on 5-12-2019, before Hon'ble MM Court of Hyderabad, Smt. Sindhu Sharma has claimed that her father had spent Rs....

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....d Writ Petition No. 18897 of 2025 against the order of the CIC dated 04-06-2024. The Department late filed Writ Appeal number 439 of 2025, against the decision Learned Single Bench of Hon'ble Telangana High Court in filed by Department. 6. However, since till date, no stay has been granted by the Hon'ble High Court of Telangana in the Writ Appeal, the broad outcomes of the enquiry is being informed to Shri Nooty Vasishta Venkateshwarlu (Appellant under RTI Act, 2005) vide this letter. Consequently, the broad outcomes of the enquiry are being provided below. 7. Broad Outcomes 1. Upon investigation, it was found that Transtroy Infrastructure had transferred certain amounts through its various bank accounts to the account held by....

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....t dated 18.02.2021 i.e., in respect of enquiry conducted on tax evasion petition filed by him. He also sought the reply and the statement of Sri Mothukuri Venkateshwar Sharma, father of his ex-wife, if any recorded during the course of the proceedings and the order of the proceedings finalising the same in order to bring the real truth in larger public interest. That has been denied by the impugned order dated 29.11.2024 passed by the Principal Director of Income Tax (Investigation) Hyderabad. The petitioner, being aggrieved, has preferred the instant writ petition. 5. Learned counsel for the petitioner has taken two-fold grounds - i) that the impugned order is cryptic and does not disclose the exact reasons why such information cannot b....