Refusing to accept an undertaking by the Income Tax department that they will seal “non-incriminating” data seized from a lawyer’s office, a division bench of the Gujarat High Court Wednesday said that it would now hear the matter on merits. The department, on the other hand, has alleged the lawyer of indulging in unscrupulous practices and that incriminating material has been seized from his premises. Thereafter the working copy of the data and the extracted hard disk containing the non-incriminating data shall be permanently sealed and shall not be accessed thereafter by the IT department. Both the said hard disks and the working copy of the data shall be sealed in the presence of the petitioner. Sheth has alleged the officials seized the devices of his and his family members that contained confidential documents concerning his clients.

Source: Indian Express December 21, 2023 07:26 UTC