Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The assessing authority or any other officer empowered in this behalf by the Government, is satisfied that any dealer with a view to evade payment of tax, shows in his accounts, sale or purchase of any goods at prices lower than the prevailing market price of such goods, shall have the power to purchase such goods at a price of ten per cent above the purchase value or the value disclosed by any principal or agent in the case of goods received on consignment basis plus transporting charges and entrust such goods for sale to the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. or Kerala State Marketing Federation Limited or to any such public distribution system or sell such goods in public auction.