Zee Media Bureau/ Mahesh Gupta
New Delhi: A former Additional Solicitor General (ASG) on Thursday approached the Supreme Court (SC) seeking its direction to the Centre to recover Rs 21,000 crore tax dues from UK telecom major Vodafone and to restrain the government from going ahead with arbitration on the issue.
Vishwajeet Bhattacharya who deals with tax matters and was a law officer during the UPA regime, mentioned his petition before a vacation bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen which posted the case for hearing on July one.
Bhattacharyya submitted that the Centre is not implementing the rule which was amended in 2012 to claim taxes and pleaded to the Supreme Court to intervene in the matter.
Recently, the government had appointed former Chief Justice of India R C Lahoti as arbitrator in the tax dispute case.
