Raipur GST team has taken major action in the case of tax evasion. The team has arrested Aman Agarwal, director of Agastya Enterprises and Agarwal Enterprises. The businessman had evaded tax of about 26 crores in the name of different firms.

Iron trader Aman Agarwal made purchases worth 144 crores from different bogus firms of the state from 2023 to 2025. By taking advantage of its input tax credit, he passed on to traders of other districts and took a profit of about 26 crores.

Purchases made in the name of these bogus firms

Bogus purchases worth about 144 crores have been made in the name of Hussaini Enterprises, Dhan Lakshmi Enterprises, Mahavir Enterprises, Unique Enterprises, Ansari Traders, Vinayak Ventures, Lalit Tradelink and Agastya Enterprises. Due to this, the government has suffered a tax loss of about 26 crores.

Deceased shown as alive in the papers
Aman Agrawal created bogus firms in the name of such persons who had died in 2010. But purchases from him were shown in 2013 and 15.