CAIT threatens to move court against Infosys

The Confederation Of All India Traders (CAIT), which has blamed Infosys for glitches in the goods and services tax network, on Sunday said if no action is taken against the company, it will have no other option left but to take “shelter of the court of law”.

In a statement, CAIT said GST portal has brought much harassment and mental agony to traders by its non-smooth functioning and has proved a major roadblock in success of a good taxation system like GST.

The traders body said that “it has failed to understand why no action is being taken against Infosys and other companies, who have taken the contract of the GST portal at a huge cost of about ~1,400 crore”.

Infosys has already denied the allegations as “completely inaccurate”.

CAIT said Infosys has come out with “lame excuses” having a stereotype reply that portal is functioning well.

“If no immediate action is taken against Infosys, we will have no other alternative left but to take shelter in the court and award the culprits suitable punishment for non performance and wastage of public money. No one will be allowed to run away with public money,” CAIT said.

Earlier this month, the IT major in a statement had said: “Infosys is very proud to be associated with the prestigious GST project, which is the largest tax project of its kind in the world. The system has already demonstrated success across several parameters.”