The CBI on Monday arrested a Joint Commissioner of Income Tax and an Income Tax Officer of IT department's office in Kolkata in a bribery case. The agency also arrested a Chartered Accountant Samarendra Nath Ghosh and his assistant in the trap case.
CBI had registered a case against the Joint Commissioner of Income Tax Deepak J Mehta and ITO PN Srivastava on the complaint of the owner of a firm engaged in business of fishery based at South 24 Parganas (Bengal), agency sources said.
The IT officials allegedly demanded illegal gratification of Rs 25 lakhs from the complainant for providing relief to his firm in avoiding penalty and additional tax liability.
The agency laid a trap and caught the CA and his assistant red handed in the office of the complainant while allegedly accepting an illegal gratification of Rs 3 lakhs as an installment of the total bribe amount demanded by the IT officials. Searches were conducted in the office and residential premises of the accused persons at Kolkata, Mumbai and Bihar.