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CBI arrests three IT officials
New Delhi, May 27: CBI has arrested three Income Tax officials from Mumbai for allegedly demanding and accepting bribe for releasing the refund cheques of a person.
New Delhi, May 27: CBI has arrested three Income Tax
officials from Mumbai for allegedly demanding and accepting
bribe for releasing the refund cheques of a person.
Acting on a complaint, sleuths of the investigating
agency caught income tax officer Mohan Ajwani and two of his
tax assistants - Vivekanand Wisave and Meena Pahlajam -
red-handed while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a
transport company, a CBI spokesman said here today.
The officials had demanded an illegal gratification from
the complainant for releasing cheques relating to refund
amount of Rs 1.2 lakh, he said.
The complainant was owner of a transport company in the
metropolis and had been filing his tax returns for three
consecutive years enabling him to get refund of the income tax
returns.
After their arrest, the CBI also carried out searches at their residence and official premises and found "unaccounted" cash worth Rs 37,500 from the possession of Ajwani.
All the three were produced before a special judge in Mumbai who remanded them to judicial custody till June nine, the spokesman said.
Bureau Report
After their arrest, the CBI also carried out searches at their residence and official premises and found "unaccounted" cash worth Rs 37,500 from the possession of Ajwani.
All the three were produced before a special judge in Mumbai who remanded them to judicial custody till June nine, the spokesman said.
Bureau Report