CA guilty of professional misconduct as he failed to highlight suspicious book entries during audit

The High Court of Delhi held that where respondent-chartered accountant was statutory auditor of company but failed to discharge its duty to enquire whether transactions which were merely book entries were prejudicial to interest of company, respondent was guilty of professional misconduct and his name was to be removed from register of member of ICAI for a period of 5 years.'.

Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India v. CA G.S. Johar [2017] 78 taxmann.com 286 (Delhi)