The CBI on Friday arrested two inspectors of the Income Tax Department on Friday from Hyderabad in a bribery case.
“The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested two Inspectors of Income Tax, Aayaker Bhavan, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad on the allegations of accepting bribe of `80,000,” the CBI said in a statement.
The arrests came after the agency registered a case against an Income Tax Inspector on the allegations that the accused demanded a bribe of `80,000 from the complainant for closing an Income tax matter pending against the complainant.
The then CBI laid a trap and caught the accused and also another Inspector of Income Tax while accepting the bribe of ` 30,000 and ` 50,000 respectively.
Searches at the premises of the accused persons led to recovery of incriminating documents and cash of about `5,50,000.
Both the arrested accused are being produced before the Special Judge for CBI Cases, Hyderabad, it said.
The arrested Income Tax Inspectors are Thota Purushotham Rao and Itta Upender Rao.
Meanwhile, the agency has registered a case against the then AGM, Regional Office, Syndicate Bank, Nizamabad; two former Chief Managers of Syndicate Bank, Chanda Nagar, Hyderabad and others including private persons and unknown persons.
It was alleged that a civil ` 5 crore as working capital and a similar amount as Bank Guarantee during the period 2016-17 to meet the expenses of his contract works.