Directorate of Income-Tax Investigation (DITI), Mumbai has set up a 'Cyber Forensic Lab' with the help of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC).
This forensic lab consists of advanced technological equipments to decipher tax evasion and detecting defrauding of the revenue.
"The facility has been set up in Delhi and Mumbai for those who evade tax. We already had some regular checks and searches conducted by our people, these tools will be added as part of our search operations," M Rathinasamy, additional director of income tax (investigation), Mumbai told media persons here today.
The cyber forensic lab will be of immense help to the directorate of investigation for gathering and analysing data and digital evidences.
"As in mordern times people in business use digital gadgets and computer systems so it has become necessary for tax department to acquaint itself with modern tools to handle digital evidences," he said. "With this we would periodically collect evidences and analyse those evidences with the help of these tools," he added.
The lab has been set up with the help of technical assistance from CDAC, Thiruvananthpuram, a scientific society of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, government of India.
