GST Officer Writes to CBIC

The Commissioner of GST and Central Excise in Chennai, S Ravi Selvan has written a detailed letter to the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) stating that the complaint is a fabricated and malicious one.

Last week, the Madras High Court has granted an interim relief to S Ravi Selvan, has stayed all further proceedings pursuant to a sexual harassment complaint against him.

Mr. Ravi Selvan was the Principal Commissioner of Customs, when the fourth respondent who is an IRS officer lodged a sexual harassment complaint against him on 24.05.2022. The complaint was lodged accusing him of sexually harassing her, but he refuted the allegations and accused the complainant of filing a motivated complaint against him.

The officer, in his letter to the CBIC, stated that no offence is made out against him, and the complaint as such is not maintainable and the proceedings issued in pursuance of the complaint for constitution of the Committee is also liable to be revoked.

“As the complainant is an Indian Revenue Service officer, holding a senior position in the tax enforcement department and when she did not work under my charge, it cannot be said that she was barred from making the complaint at that point itself to her immediate superiors or to the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs. That alone would prove that the complaint was written as an after-thought after issuing a Memo to her by the Department for…