Delhi High Court serves notice on govt, GST Council in real estate case

As such, the prima facie evidence as required under the anti-profiteering provisions of the CGST Act does not exist, according to the petitioner.

The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the Union government, national anti-profiteering authority, and the GST Council on a petition over quas­hing the proceedings laun­ched against a real estate player on an anti-profiteering complaint.

The directorate general of anti-profiteering (DGAP) had earlier served a notice on a real estate company over a complaint by a home buyer that the builder had not passed on the benefit of input tax credit to him for a unit bought by it in a residential complex, said Abhishek Rastogi, partner at Khaitan & Co. 

Through the notice, DGAP had sought voluminous details from the