Chandigarh: Punjab Congress leader Amarinder Singh’s son has been summoned by a court in Ludhiana on a complaint by the Income-Tax department regarding his foreign assets.
“Raninder Singh be summoned on July 26 under Section 277 of the Income-Tax Act and Sections 177 and 181 of the IPC,” Ludhiana’s chief judicial magistrate Ranjiv Vashishta ordered on Saturday. The I-T department had alleged that Mr Raninder Singh made false statements twice under oath, denying being a beneficiary of foreign assets or having association with any such foreign entity, officials said here.
The department had credible information that the accused was a beneficiary of foreign assets, maintained and controlled through business entities, the official added.
Meanwhile, Mr Amarinder Singh on Sunday dismissed the I-T department complaint against his son, as a “classic case of political vendetta borne out of bruised egos and haunting memory of a humiliating defeat”.
