In a setback to CBI and income-tax sleuths, a Dubai court has barred corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, who is being probed in India for allegedly concealing income of more than Rs 1,000-crore as well as facilitating aviation contracts during the UPA regime, from leaving the country. The Dubai court gave an order on November 29, 2017.
The court’s order came after a complaint by one Rajendra Patel, a resident of Burj Dubai, filed on November 28.
The complaint relates to a dispute over financial transactions held between March and November between Patel and Talwar for their ‘commercial interests’ in Dubai.
The order, a copy of which is with TOI, called for a travel ban “against the defendant (Deepak Talwar), retaining his passport and circulating his name to all the state’s ports”.
Officials in CBI and I-T are intrigued by the timing of the order which will frustrate India’s efforts to bring Talwar back to the country to face the law.
In the order, Talwar’s address in Dubai has been shown as Apartment 23 and Apartment 231 in Marina Crown Building in Dubai Marina Street.
Talwar’s counsel, however, said that the I-T department’s complaint is premature and the agency has not passed any order regarding any reassessment of income tax filed by Talwar.
First of all, the I-T complaint is premature. In as much as the I-T authorities are yet to pass any order in assessment and re-assessment proceedings pursuant to the raid conducted in 2016 as regards whether he has made any wilful concealment of his income.
Second, he is being represented in India by his counsel,” said Tanveer Ahmed Mir, counsel for Talwar.
Sources in the I-T department said they may send a letter rogatory (LR) for Talwar’s deportation to India.
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