New Delhi: The CBI has arrested a deputy commissioner and another official of the
goods and services tax department in Amravati in Maharashtra in
connection with alleged bribery of Rs 1.5 lakh, an official said here
today.
The arrested are Deputy Commissioner M V Telgote and Head Hawaldar G D Mishra.
"It
was also alleged that Deputy Commissioner, GST, Amravati demanded a
bribe of Rs 3 Lakh from the complainant for not imposing any penalty on
him. Later, the accused reduced the bribe amount to Rs 1.5 Lakh when the
complainant expressed his inability to pay and directed the complainant
to hand over the bribe at Amravati," CBI Spokesperson Abhishek Dayal
said here.
The agency laid a trap and caught the deputy
commissioner red-handed while allegedly accepting Rs 1.5 Lakh from the
complainant, he said.
During the investigation, the role of Head
Hawaldar G D Mishra in the fraudulent transaction also came into light
and he was arrested too, Dayal said.
He said searches were
conducted at the residences and offices of the officials, which led to
the recovery of various "incriminating documents".
PTI
