Kanpur: Special chief judicial magistrate (Economic Offences) on Friday issued non-bailable warrants against Yogesh Agarwal, director of Rimjhim Ispat East Company, and two other employees, Kapil and Laxmikant Goel, in a Rs 6.68 crore tax evasion case.According to Ambarish Tandon, special prosecutor for the GST department, a tax evasion case against the firm was filed in 2014 and the department subsequently imposed a penalty of Rs 6,68,94,028 on the company.An additional penalty of Rs 25 lakh was imposed on directors Yogesh Agarwal and Mukesh Agarwal (now deceased), while a penalty of Rs 10 lakh each was imposed on Kapil, Laxmikant Goel and dealer Anil Goel.The company challenged the penalty and filed a discharge application, which was dismissed by the CJM court in Kanpur.A criminal revision petition was subsequently filed in the Allahabad high court, but was rejected.The company then approached the Supreme Court in 2025. The apex court upheld the high court’s order and remitted the matter to the trial court.The trial court received the case file on July 29, 2026, and passed an order directing the prosecution and the accused to appear before the court on Aug 20, 2026.The special prosecutor submitted that the accused were fully aware of the outcome of the criminal revision petition and the court’s directions, yet failed to appear before the court.In her order, presiding judge Sudesh Kumari observed that since the accused had neither sought bail nor appeared on the scheduled date, non-bailable warrants were issued against them.
