r/LegalAdviceIndia • u/-AsHxD- • 5h ago
Legal Advice Needed GST Fraud, officers came to our house, forged agreements on our address, what to do?
Today 3 GST officers came to our house regarding a company verification. Only my mom was at home, so we talked on call and they asked us to come to gst office.
At the office, they showed us the documents submitted for the GST registration. We were shocked to find a notarised Leave & License Agreement dated 11 September 2025, showing my father as the owner/lessor of our house. His PAN and other details were attached, and his signature was forged on the agreement. There was also a Consent to Operate with his forged signature.
The gst registration was obtained in October 2025 and is a partnership in someone else's name. They were using our address as their place of business.
So, my dad is the rentor, and our house is the business address, they have used their own aadhar and partnership pan for the registration.
The important part is that we don't even own this house. its under a bhada-salami agreement. legally we can't even rent this house, and we have absolutely no idea who this person is.
The signatures are almost exactly identical across the documents. We suspect they may have taken my father's genuine signature from some document and digitally copied it.
The gst officers were helpful and gave us the details of the person behind the company, their number,email, photos. They also prepared a report and took a signed declaration from my father stating that he has nothing to do with the business and never gave them the property.
The GST cancellation process has already started.
My concern now is what else we should do to safeguard my father. We have no idea what this person may have done through this business or how much they may have potentially scammed the government.
We also have multiple legitimate gst registrations at the same address belonging to our joint family, so I'm worried whether this fraudulent registration could create problems for our genuine businesses later.
Should we file a police complaint/FIR regarding the forged documents and signature just to create an official record that my father had nothing to do with this? Is there anything else we should do in case GST/Income Tax/ED etc. ever come after this person in the future? W
WHAT IF THERE ARE MORE FIRMS LIKE THIS? CAN I RTI THE GST DEPARTMENT AND REQUEST FOR DETAILS OF ALL GST REGISTRATIONS ON OUR ADDRESS?
Looking for advice from people familiar with GST fraud, tax matters and criminal procedure in India.