CBI on Saturday said it has registered a criminal case against Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Kerala, Anil Goel, his wife and three others for their alleged involvement in a tax evasion bribery racket.
A criminal case was registered in CBI Anti-Corruption Branch, Cochin yesterday against Goel, Sarath S, Income Tax Officer working under him, Goel’s wife Juhi, Koshy K I, Chartered Accountant and Balachandran, Managing Director of Ramachandran Textiles, Thiruvananthapuram “for commission of offences of criminal conspiracy, criminal misconduct, abetment and demand of illegal gratification by public servants on the basis of a source information,” CBI said in a release here.
The information disclosed that they had entered into a criminal conspiracy to collect illegal gratification from various Income Tax assesses under their jurisdiction to extend undue favours and also to protect the interest of those assesses in IT matters pending before them, the agency said.
They demanded an illegal gratification of Rs10 lakh from Ramachandran Textiles, Thiruvananthapuram, an assesse,which gave the amount to Sarath through Koshy on Oct 13, 2015, CBI said.
The money was subsequently seized the next day during the CBI probe into a case registered against Sailendra Mamidi, Principal Commissioner Income Tax, Sarath and others, it said.