The Income Tax Department will share PAN and bank account details of any entity with 10 investigative and intelligence agencies including the CBI and the NIA, under the integrated counter-terrorism platform NATGRID, according to an official order.
The 10 agencies are : the Central Bureau of Investigation, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Enforcement Directorate, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, Cabinet Secretariat, Intelligence Bureau, Directorate General of GST Intelligence, Narcotics Control Bureau, Financial Intelligence Unit and the National Investigation Agency.
“While furnishing the information, the specified income-tax authority shall form an opinion that sharing of such information is necessary for the purposes of enabling these agencies/bodies to perform its functions under their respective laws,” the CBDT order said.
