22 cable ops booked for evading tax
NAGPUR: Offences were registered against 22 cable operators at 10 different police stations for providing illegal connections. Entertainment tax department of the collectorate had conducted a survey towards the end of the last year in which around 2,500 illegal connections came to fore.
Sources in the entertainment tax department stated that the erring cable operators, including those politically connected, did not have valid trade licence for doing business. This way, they were evading substantial entertainment tax and inflicting loss on the government.
Offences have been registered at Gittikhadan, Yashodhara Nagar, Pachpaoli, Tehsil, Nandanvan, Imambada, Ajni, RP Nagar, Jaripatka and Koradi police stations. It is learnt that the operators booked were affiliated to four major players in the cable network of the city. tnnThe connections provided by unauthorized cable operators were in the slums.
