Income Tax Bill, 2025, which was hastily pushed through Parliament without any debate, gazetted today. Included in the Act is a provision that grants sweeping powers to the tax authority to invade digital informational privacy of taxpayers. Thread 1/ Power to conduct search, seizure already delineated in section 132 of 1961 Act. One would’ve expected govt undertaking task of overhauling a sixty-year-old law to align such powers with recent privacy jurisprudence. Instead, new law renders it even more draconian. 2/