{"id":1030908,"date":"2026-08-25T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030908"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:26:46","slug":"delhi-hc-raps-i-t-dept-over-%e2%82%b953-crore-vodafone-idea-refund-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/delhi-hc-raps-i-t-dept-over-%e2%82%b953-crore-vodafone-idea-refund-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC raps I-T dept over \u20b953 crore Vodafone Idea refund delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Coming down heavily on the income tax department for holding back \u20b953.09 crore refund for over two years, the Delhi High Court has asked it to refund the amount to Vodafone Idea (Vi) with interest for assessment years 2003-04 (Apr-Mar) and 2008-09 to 2013-14 by September 30, failing which the amount shall carry an additional interest of 1% per month over and above the statutory interest. <\/p>\n<p>Observing that the case portrays a &#8220;grim picture of the state of affairs prevailing in the department&#8221; on issues relating to refunds, a division bench comprising Justices Dinesh Mehta and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Coming down heavily on the income tax department for holding back \u20b953.09 crore refund for over two years, the Delhi High Court has asked it to refund the amount to Vodafone Idea (Vi) with interest for assessment years 2003-04 (Apr-Mar) and 2008-09 to 2013-14 by September 30, failing which the amount shall carry an additional interest of 1% per month over and above the statutory interest. Observing that the case portrays a &#8220;grim picture of the state of affairs prevailing in the department&#8221; on issues relating to refunds, a division bench comprising Justices Dinesh Mehta and Rajneesh Kumar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030923,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030908\/revisions\/1030923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}