UP potter selling Rs 2 clay pots gets Rs 1.2 crore GST notice
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The potter's family has approached local authorities with their plea, claiming their identification documents were misused for fraudulent activities and sought a proper investigation.
A potter who earns just a few pennies a day selling cheap clay pots and other items in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli has been left devastated after receiving a Goods and Services Tax (GST) notice of Rs 1.25 crore. Mohammad Saeed, a resident near Harchandpur in Rae Bareli, says he has never run a company, as mentioned in the notice, and suspects that his PAN and Aadhaar details were misused to commit fraud in his name.
Saeed, who supports a family of five by making and selling earthen pots, said the notice links him to four companies allegedly operating in Patna.
"We are poor people who survive on a few pennies," he said. "We make earthen pots and sell kulhars. We earn Rs 10–Rs 20 per hundred in hotels. That is how our family runs".
According to Saeed, several years ago a villager helped him obtain a Permanent Account Number (PAN) card and Aadhaar card to apply for a loan.
He never received the loan and later lost the documents. Despite repeated attempts, he could neither secure financial assistance nor start any business.
He believes those lost documents were later misused to create fake firms.
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