1995 (7) TMI 43

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..... nformer under the Income-tax Act, 1961, seeks payment of reward in respect of information in relation to evasion of tax of about Rs. 22 crores. In the petition, it is the case of the petitioner that on the basis of assurance given by the respondents, viz., respondent No. 3, the petitioner gave information to the Commissioner of Income-tax with regard to tax evasion as far back as in 1984. The resp .....

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..... disputed facts. Merely because the Income-tax Department did not give reply to the petitioner's claim for reward does not mean that the petitioner automatically gets his right to receive the said amount. The claim of the petitioner cannot be decided in writ jurisdiction under article 226 of the Constitution and the remedy, if any, is to institute civil proceedings by way of suit. In the above ci .....

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