Delhi HC allows Bharti Airtel to rectify GST returns, claim Rs 923-crore refund

In a relief to Sunil Bhari-led Bharti Airtel, the Delhi High Court has allowed the telco to rectify its GST returns for July 2017 to September 2017 and thus claim refund of Rs 923 crore, which was denied earlier by the tax department. It also asked the revenue authorities to verify the rectified GSTR-3B form and process the refund, if any, within two weeks.

A division bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Sanjeev Narula allowed Bharti to rectify the returns for the error period July to September 2017, saying “we do not find any cogent reasoning behind the logic for restricting rectification only in the period in which the error is noticed and corrected, and not in the period to which it relates.