India, Nov. 21 -- BYJU'S chief financial officer (CFO) P V Rao will have to physically appear in the Delhi high court to record statements in the alleged GST evasion case.

The court has denied him the option to record a statement through video conference as he was not able to prove his claims of being physically unfit to travel to New Delhi. Besides this, the high court also took notice of Rao's non-cooperative conduct during earlier attempts of the DGGSTI (Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence) to record the statement.

The development comes after DGGSTI raided one of BYJU'S offices in Bengaluru from October 27 to 30, 2020, Business Today reported. The company has been accused of evading GST on books/printed material b...