Jaipur: Income tax department has registered a case of alleged forgery in Ashok Nagar police station against unidentified persons for sending a fake IT notice to a resident of Jaipur.The fake notice had been sent to Abhishek Godha and the matter came to light when his representative met the IT department officials regarding the notice. The notice had signature of a senior IT official and the department claimed that the signature had been forged.“We came to know about the forgery when a representative of Godha came to meet me. I immediately noticed that although the letter had been signed in my name, it was not my signature. Even the letterhead used was not of IT department. The person who had forged the letter had put wrong email address as well, so we do not get to know of the forgery. We got to know about this couple of days back and lodged a FIR with the police,” said a senior IT official.On being asked if it is an inside job, the official added, “It is not possible because the format of the fake notice is not the one followed by us. Also, the official seal is missing so if it was an insider, he could have used the seal.”A case under IPC section 420 (cheating) has been registered and Heeralal, sub-inspector, Ashok Nagar police station said, “We are yet to speak to all the parties involved. Once we get their statements, we will prepare a possible list of suspects who could have sent the notice on behalf of the IT department.”

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