A nexus duping the GST (Goods and Services Tax) department has been uncovered by the economic offence (ECO) cell of the Surat crime branch. The perpetrators syphoned off an input tax credit (ITC) worth ₹30 cr through eight fraudulent firms.
Debris of house that collapsed during the cyclone; (below) uprooted tree in Una town of Gir Somnath district
Rajkot: Una town of Gir-Somnath district was completely cut-off from rest of Gujarat after bearing the maximum brunt of cyclone Tauktae which made a landfall close to the coast there on Monday night.
Locals say this was the worst-ever devastation caused by a natural calamity since 1982 when a cyclone had badly hit the town. The ferocity of winds that gusted upto 170 km per hour from 9m on Monday continued for six hours till nearly 3am
But villagers woke up to the sight of horror. Ramesh Barad, a farmer in a village of Veraval said, “All the kutcha houses in Una town and surrounding villages have collapsed.”