Cases of Agriculture Income more than 1 crore to be probed [CBDT letter 10-03-2016]

CBDT instructs officers to verify cases of agriculture Income more than one crore in resposne a PIL matter pending before Hon’ble Patna High Court wherein concerns have been raised that a few assesses may be engaged in routing their unaccounted/illegal money in the garb of agricultural income thereby not only claiming exemptions on such income but also engaged in the money laundering activities. Also CBDT has advised that there may be data entry errors also resulting in income being reflected more than one crores. List of cases where agiculture income is more than one crore has been made available to officers. In Amritsar 26 cases have been reported [CBDT Letter dated 10-03-2016]