Amid a growing call to conduct a full and transparent investigation into complaints made by several businesses and business-owners against the customs department, Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Aarin Capital and former CFO of Infosys, has requested Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to look into not just the Wintrack vs Chennai Customs case but also into other complaints. Advertisement
Pai urged FM Sitharaman and the Finance Ministry to consider a “full and transparent investigation into routine experiences of people with the Customs department”. He tagged Sitharaman and the ministry on a tweet by urbanist and teacher, Ashwin Mahesh, who said that a simple probe into Wintrack’s complaints against bribery and Chennai Customs’ subsequent response denying it, isn’t enough.
“The government has