Preity Zinta, a Bollywood actor, became embroiled in a lengthy tax controversy after filing her 2016 income tax return as a non-resident and reporting an income of Rs 46 lakh. The tax authorities eventually discovered significant credit and debit transactions in one of her bank accounts using its own monitoring system.

Because these transactions looked to be significantly higher than her claimed income, the tax officer reopened her case under Section 147, which allows for reassessment of suspected concealed income.