Sources in the department have said they booked a case against the musician on October 15 for allegedly evading service tax on assignments and projects he has undertaken. The department had issued Sami summons, asking him to appear on Monday, for questioning in connection with the alleged tax evasion. If the singer is found to be liable to pay more service tax, a show-cause notice will be issued to him. Meanwhile, the service tax department will check all his papers and see if he is liable to more service tax. Sami will deposit the money with the service tax department. Sami has a contract with a firm called Catalyst from which he is expected to receive some money. The singer said he was not able to pay service tax as his accounts were frozen. Sami has promised to pay the money as soon as possible. Thereafter, he alleged that the sole purpose of the CAA was to create polarization in the Indian polity.Pakistani singer Adnan Sami accepted on Tuesday that he had to pay around Rs 10 lakh in service tax. According to Singh, Sami’s case indicated that the government always had the right to give citizenship to any person irrespective of religion. Congratulating famous singer Adnan Sami on being bestowed the Padma Shri award, Singh claimed that he had himself requested the Centre to grant him Indian citizenship. On Sunday, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh too questioned the Centre on the necessity of introducing the Citizenship Amendment Act. READ | Digvijaya Singh Questions Centre On Need For CAA, Cites Citizenship Granted To Adnan Sami Congress raises a similar point CAA says one needs to apply for citizenship but in UP, the government has already identified the beneficiaries."
Citizenship will be granted to an individual, not a city, district or community. Rules haven't been made nor any application has arrived. I read in a newspaper that a collector from UP's Pilibhit said that they have already identified 37,000 people to be given citizenship. "The text of the law makes its implementation not possible and perhaps that's what the government hopes for in order to keep things vague. The third thing that according to Yashwant Sinha is a flaw in CAA is the words used in the law's text. 'Would-be citizens identified without application' Whereas, Sonia Gandhi got her Indian citizenship in April 1983 after she renounced her Italian one. Singer Adnan Sami became an Indian citizen in January 2016, under the ‘citizenship by naturalisation’ category of the Citizenship Act, 1955. READ | Adnan Sami Reacts On Being Conferred With Padma Shri, Says 'Bohot Shukriya'
This government gave citizenship to thousands of people in the last five years so what is the need to do this based on religion now?" Similarly, even people like Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and even Sonia Gandhi were given citizenship. He added, "Adnan Sami got his citizenship and now he has been awarded Padma Shri. Second, it is very important to note that there was no need to bring such an amendment in the citizenship law because the Government of India already had the power to grant citizenship to anybody it wished." "Firstly, this law is against the basic structure of the Constitution. Speaking at a press conference in Lucknow alongside Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Sinha pointed to three things that he said were the main reasons behind opposing the CAA. READ | CAA 'unconstitutional, Must Be Withdrawn: Yashwant Sinha Sinha, a vocal critic of the Modi government who quit the BJP in 2018, cited the example of Padma Shri awardee Adnan Sami and interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi of having received Indian citizenship without "religion-based" CAA. Former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha questioned the need to bring the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) when the original law already gave powers to the government to grant citizenship to immigrants.
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