The Supreme Court has held that a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit is not designed to function as a criminal investigation. While an audit may scrutinize accounts, test statutory compliance, and flag procedural deficiencies, it lacks the legal mandate to undertake core investigative functions such as conducting searches and seizures, tracing beneficial ownership through…
CAG Audit Can’t Substitute Criminal Probe; Lacks Powers to Trace Money Trail, Fix Accountability in Cognizable Offences: Supreme Court
Amit Sharma
Amit Sharma is the Content Editor at JurisHour. He has been writing about the Indian legal market. He has covered tax & company litigation stories from the Supreme Court, High Courts and Various Tribunals. Amit graduated from MLSU Law College with B.A.LL.B. and also holds an LL.M. from MLSU, Udaipur, Rajasthan. An Advocate in Taxation, and practised in Tribunals as well as Rajasthan High Court and pursued Masters in Constitutional Law. He started out small with little resources but a big plan to take tax legal education to the remotest locations across India and eventually to the world. His vision is to make tax related legal developments accessible to the masses.
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