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New Delhi: In more embarrassment coming for Team Anna, reports have emerged that Anna Hazare's aide Arvind Kejriwal was slapped a notice by the Income Tax department last month.
The Income-Tax notice slapped on the Magsaysay Award winner asked him to pay dues of more than Rs 9 lakh.
The notice was served a week before Anna Hazare kicked off his anti-corruption crusade on August 16 at Ramlila Maidan.
Incidentally, officially, Kejriwal is still an IRS employee as the department has not accepted his resignation tendered in 2006.
The I-T department maintains that Kejriwal violated bond conditions and his resignation, will be accepted only once the dues are cleared.
Team Anna member Justice Santosh Hegde says the timing seems vindictive.
"At a time when he has done so much in the movement of Anna Hazare. The government seems to be taking vindictive steps, it looks to me at the first sight. I think people at large will misundersatnd this. Five yrs back he left his job, he signed a bond and now when amidst all these happenings, they slap him this amount and say come and pay within a week, looks vindictive to me," said Justice Hegde.
On being asked whether the government will harass every member of Team Anna, Hegde said,"I don't know, may be so. Such attempts have been going on for a long time, either to denigrate them or to harass them in one way or the other," he said.
The BJP too questioned the government's intentions.
"Arvind Kejriwal is spearheading the battle against corruption. Whenever anyone has raised a voice against corruption in the government, he or she is targeted. It's rather amusing and incidental that whosoever carries a movement against government ends up landing with a notice. It does raise a sense of suspicion whether its the intent of the government," said BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
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01) I strongly feel that employers - Government or Private - collecting any form of compensation for leaving their employment to an anachronous practice, the we still are following from the outdated British Rule Book.
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03) What if, since Arvind's resignation has not been accepted, suppose he chooses to re-join the IT Dept., would they re-admit his with full seniority and increment protection?
04) After having been silent on his resignation for such long period, does IT Department still has a moral and legal authority to demand any compensation from its ex-employee?
05) How long the Government would wish to bury its head in a hole and continue to hound the crusaders against the Corruption?
06) Instead the tax payers money would be well spent, if the Government spend its energies and time to eradicate the alround corruption that has been the gangrene of our Society, preventing it from developing, fully, in all senses than one!
TEAM ANNA dont worry about I-T Notice, please give IAC - India Against Corruption's Bank A/C No in Media or Charge C.C - Paypal on IAC website. NRI's wants to contribute for better India. We are Proud of you and your Patriotic Heroism. Please keep it up the Good work for Truth and Justice. Jai ANNA HAZARE - Jai HIND.
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