System error: Don't worry, says I-T chief

MUMBAI: Chief commissioner of income tax R K Singh on Tuesday acknowledged that a “mechanical error’’ in its central office in New Delhi was behind the wrong recovery notices that were issued to salaried employees in Mumbai last week. He reiterated that the department was working to identify the “point’’ where the fault had occurred and that the taxpayer would not be unduly penalised.

TOI in its Tuesday’s edition had reported about several people receiving erroneous I-T notices. “There is some problem in the system, something like a bug that infects a computer. We are working to rectify the mistake. I assure the people who have received the notices will not be inconvenienced,’’ Singh said. “This is not a human mistake. It is a computer glitch that occurred sometime last week in our central system in New Delhi.’’