AMU, champion of civic duties and basic rights, will get its checking account seized over non-payment of taxes

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) finds itself in a tricky spot, days after grandly celebrating 100 years of its existence by a minimum of having Prime Minister Narendra Modi grace the centennial occasion. In a serious growth which has projected AMU as an alleged tax-incompliant establishment, the Aligarh Municipal Corporation seized the college’s checking account for non-payment of tax dues, regardless of being urged by the company to take action for years on finish now. AMU has of late been grabbing the nationwide headlines for all of the fallacious causes, and the seizure of its checking account is one more feather within the cap of the establishment to the identical impact.Vinay Kumar Rai, Chief Taxation Officer, Aligarh whereas speaking to ANI mentioned that the administration has given sufficient probabilities to AMU to pay the dues. The CTO additionally knowledgeable that property tax to the tune of Rs. 14 crores had been as a result of be paid by the college. “There was property tax due of around Rs 14.83 crore of Aligarh Municipal Corporation on AMU. The dues were pending for the last 8 to 10 years. In 2019 we have seized the accounts. We have given them enough chances and asked them to pay the dues but they did not do so. Hence, we were forced to take the decision of seizing the bank account of Aligarh Muslim University,” Rai advised ANI.Read extra: Yogi govt is planning to go all out in opposition to Jinnah fiefdom AMU and its anti-India politicsImportantly, the Aligarh Municipal Corporation, after seizing the checking account has additionally set a timeline for the Aligarh Muslim University to cough up the dues in a single week’s time. In case the college doesn’t pay up the tax dues, the Municipal Corporation has knowledgeable that “money from AMU’s account will be transferred to Municipal Corporation”. Additionally, the Chief Taxation Officer additionally mentioned that if dues by AMU should not paid inside every week’s time, the company will actively deliberate on the prospect of taking up college properties to reimburse itself of the quantity it’s owed.The growth comes as an enormous shock for a lot of AMU followers, who have a tendency to sing laurels of the college the place Mohammad Ali Jinnah is seemed as much as as an mental and an individual from which individuals should draw inspiration. Again, the identical college, which has Islamists swarming the campus in abundance, tends to actively converse in assist of infinite basic rights and freedom of speech. Of course, paying taxes doesn’t slot in to the bigger scheme of issues which the college and its college students act in the direction of.