Mr Bhowmick, a resident of DLF Magnolias on Golf Course Road, in Gurgaon, Haryana, India made an investment of about USD 3 lakh in a Bermuda-focussed global investment fund while he was in Singapore. He invested this sum on May 19, 2015, and cashed it out on March 16, 2016 and got USD 3.14 lakh (3,14,608.15) upon redemption.
However, this Bermuda investment fund redemption created troubles for him back in India as the Indian Income Tax Department considered it black money and used the full force of Indian law to tax it and slapped him with a black money penalty.