Same PAN assigned to two people; HC requests response from the income tax department

 

An odd case where a man alleged that his Permanent Account Number (PAN) had also been assigned to someone else resulted in his receiving warnings from a bank for paying credit card bills of someone else has prompted the Delhi High Court to request a response from the Income Tax Department.

The individual claimed he was being forced to pay back a debt of 2 lakh rupees on the credit card that had not been granted to him. He urged the authorities for instructions to correct the error of issuing two PAN cards with the same number to two distinct persons.

The Department of Income Tax, Directorate of Income Tax (System), National Securities Depository Ltd, State Bank of India (SBI), and Credit Information Bureau India Ltd (CIBIL) were served notices regarding the petition, and Justice Prathiba M. Singh requested their reply.

The high court ordered that no coercive actions against the petitioner by the bank for failing to make credit card payments be made, and it scheduled the case for further hearing on April 21.

When speaking on behalf of the petitioner, advocate Amit Verma claimed that his client's credit ratings had been impacted by the PAN that had been issued to someone else.

The petitioner's attorney said that the petitioner learned about the duplicate PAN when, on August 15, 2017, he received a warning from the IRS accusing him of filing an incorrect ITR.

Following then, the petitioner repeatedly tried to fix the situation by approaching the respondents, but it was in vain, according to the plea.