Indian Express: Tiruchi: Sunday, April 29, 2018.
The Income
Tax officer of the Tiruchy Division turned to the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries
while responding or avoiding a response to a Right to Information (RTI)
petition filed by Express seeking seeking details about IT raids conducted
between December 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018 in the division.
“You have
sought certain information in respect to income tax "Raids". Since
the term ‘raid’ was not defined under the Income Tax Act 1961, the meaning of
the ‘raid’ as defined in the Cambridge Dictionary and Oxford Dictionary
respectively are given below.....,” said Central public information officer,
Ganesh Kumar, who is also the I-T officer of Tiruchy.
According to
Cambridge dictionary, the officer said, a raid is ‘a short sudden attack,
usually by a small group of people, and also it is ‘an act of entering a place
by force in order to steal from it.’ Meanwhile, the Oxford dictionary says the
raid is ‘a rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other
armed forces.’ Then, he said, “.….no such activities of the similar nature have
been carried out by Tiruchy office, hitherto, since the inception of this
office.”
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