Addl I-T Commissioner held by CBI for alleged Rs 30 lakh bribe

CBI today arrested an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax in Gandhinagar for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30 lakh from a construction firm for favouring it in scrutiny of tax returns.
In a late evening co-ordinated operation in Gandhinagar, CBI arrested C S Bharti, a 1994-batch Indian Revenue Services official, agency sources said here.
They said Bharti had allegedly demanded Rs 30 lakh from a constructions company - Drishti Constructions - to help it in scrutiny and assessment of its Income Tax returns.
After getting the input, the agency laid a trap, during which it was found that delivery of the bribe money was allegedly given to a third party which was arranged by a middleman on the instructions of Bharti.

The agency nabbed the middleman and Bharti in connection with the case, they said, adding searches were conducted at various locations in Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad.