Illegal recovery: Patna HC slaps cost of Rs 5k on GST officer

PATNA: The Patna high court has slapped a cost of Rs 5,000 on a Goods and Services Tax (GST) officer for "forcible and illegal recovery" of cent per cent tax amount from a person waiting to avail the statutory remedy of appeal before GST tribunal which has not been made functional in Bihar.  A division bench of chief justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Rajiv Roy passed the order on…