Four officers of Uttarakhand Directorate-General of Customs and Excise (Intelligence) who were arrested by the CBI late on Friday evening were produced in the CBI court on Saturday. The court sent them in police remand for five days starting Saturday, said Dehradun branch CBI DSP Akhil Kaushik.
A team of CBI Dehradun branch had arrested AK Mishra, assistant direction of the above department on Friday evening in the act of accepting a bribe of Rs10 lakh from the complainant AK Yadav, resident of Rudrapur.
Accused Mishra and three other officers of the same department named AK Gupta, Satendra and Vivek Pandey had sought bribe of Rs 10 lakh from Yadav in lieu of settlement of service tax issue. As per the deal, the bribe amount was supported to be distributed among these four officers. Yadav is involved in the operation of a manpower enterprise.
After their arrest, the CBI team had also conducted raids in the houses of all four accused on Friday night and collected evidences related to the case.
Source said that the custom and excise department officers had conducted raids in Yadav’s company in March, 2015 and seized the documents and records from the company office. The accused had sought bribe of Rs10 lakh in lieu of settlement of service tax. Yadav had registered a complaint at CBI, Dehradun branch on Thursday and later fixed the deal with the accused on the direction of CBI officer.
Mishra was caught red-handed of accepting bribe of Rs10 lakh by the CBI team at department office at Haridwar Road on Friday evening.
It should be mentioned here that two officers of two different departments were arrested while accepting bribe from the complainant by the CBI team in the last five days. On February 15, superintendent passport officer KP Singh who was second to the regional passport officer in seniority, was nabbed by the CBI team in the act of accepting an amount of Rs8,000 in bribe from a person named M Ahmed, resident of Haridwar at the Dehradun passport office. Accused Singh had sought bribe of Rs8, 000 on the pretext of providing him a passport in which he had applied in the department for going on Haj yatra.