<p>A Delhi Court has summoned Huawei India CEO Li Xiongwei and other top officials on a complaint of the Income Tax department stating the "willful failure" of providing account books and relevant documents during a search at the Chinese electronic company's Gurugram office.</p>.<p>"The culpable mental state of the accused persons is to be presumed," stated Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anurag Thakur in a recent order, stating that there is sufficient material on record to summon the accused persons under 275-B and section 278-B of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (Deals punishment for failure in facilitating an authorized officer to inspect the books of account or other documents).</p>.<p>As per the complaint, on February 15, the Income Tax department conducted a search at Huawei Communications' Gurugram office for the verification of the books of accounts.</p>.<p>However, during the course of the search, company CEO Li Xiongwei, along with Sandeep Bhatia, Amit Duggal and Long Cheng, willfully and deliberately did not comply with the department, it said.</p>.<p>They also alleged that the company officials failed to provide adequate facilities to the I-T officers and did not provide the relevant documents asked.</p>.<p>The court also noted that Xiongwei and others deliberately chose to give vague answers to some questions in their statement to the I-T department.</p>.<p>It further noted that the accused were only trying to somehow confuse the authorised officer in order to deny access to documents and unreasonably took a long time for furnishing data and information which have been readily available.</p>.<p>Recently, Xiongwei had approached the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of a Look Out Circular (LOC) against him which restrained the Chinese national from leaving the country.</p>
<p>A Delhi Court has summoned Huawei India CEO Li Xiongwei and other top officials on a complaint of the Income Tax department stating the "willful failure" of providing account books and relevant documents during a search at the Chinese electronic company's Gurugram office.</p>.<p>"The culpable mental state of the accused persons is to be presumed," stated Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anurag Thakur in a recent order, stating that there is sufficient material on record to summon the accused persons under 275-B and section 278-B of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (Deals punishment for failure in facilitating an authorized officer to inspect the books of account or other documents).</p>.<p>As per the complaint, on February 15, the Income Tax department conducted a search at Huawei Communications' Gurugram office for the verification of the books of accounts.</p>.<p>However, during the course of the search, company CEO Li Xiongwei, along with Sandeep Bhatia, Amit Duggal and Long Cheng, willfully and deliberately did not comply with the department, it said.</p>.<p>They also alleged that the company officials failed to provide adequate facilities to the I-T officers and did not provide the relevant documents asked.</p>.<p>The court also noted that Xiongwei and others deliberately chose to give vague answers to some questions in their statement to the I-T department.</p>.<p>It further noted that the accused were only trying to somehow confuse the authorised officer in order to deny access to documents and unreasonably took a long time for furnishing data and information which have been readily available.</p>.<p>Recently, Xiongwei had approached the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of a Look Out Circular (LOC) against him which restrained the Chinese national from leaving the country.</p>