Iron Dome Around MText?

If an entity deliberately forges certain documents to wrongly claim credit of Integrated GST amount, it is an offence against the State, and such an offence is not compoundable. It is adjudicated by way of trial before a magisterial court based on evidences collected in investigation.

However, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), in a case involving a private party named MText Digital Media Pvt Ltd, which was providing “Bulk Push SMS” services from BSNL’s Kota facility, followed a different approach. It allowed Police to let the matter be treated as a private complaint of BSNL which was then allowed to be closed through private settlement, which in legal term is called Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (Scan-1 at pg 18). Here are the details.