Overview
- Investigators traced the case to a pan-India billing platform after November 2025 checks at Hyderabad biryani chains led to backend access and large-scale data extraction.
- Roughly 60 TB of records covering 1.77 lakh restaurant IDs showed billing of about ₹2.43 lakh crore, with provider logs reflecting ₹13,317 crore in post-billing deletions.
- Officials allege misuse of built-in POS functions including bulk deletion of up to 30 days of bills, selective removal of cash invoices, and post-generation edits of invoices.
- Sampling found sales suppression in 2,650 of 3,734 PANs reviewed in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, including 684 cases over ₹1 crore, and a 40-restaurant check uncovered nearly ₹400 crore unreported.
- The CBDT has expanded the probe nationally as teams reconstruct deleted transactions, map GST and PAN links, and prepare tax demands, penalties, potential prosecutions, and tighter POS compliance norms.