CBI arrests 4 CGST officers in Aligarh in bribery case | Agra Information
ALIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested 4 officers from the CGST (Items and Companies Tax) workplace in Aligarh, on prices of bribery amounting to Rs 25,000.
The arrested officers embrace two superintendents, an inspector, and a tax assistant from the GST & Central Excise Division in Aligarh.
The case originated from a grievance filed towards two CGST officers in Aligarh. The complainant, an LIC agent, alleged that regardless of by no means having a agency registered in his title with GST, he had been persistently receiving notices from the CGST Division since 2021, demanding a sum of Rs 1.70 lakh.
The complainant claimed that when he met each accused officers on the CGST workplace to handle the discover, they demanded a bribe of Rs 25,000 to resolve the matter.
Following the grievance, the CBI carried out a sting operation. The tax assistant on the CGST workplace accepted the bribe of Rs 25,000 from the complainant and handed it over to an inspector. Throughout the investigation, superintendents KP Singh and Rohit Kumar Varshney, inspector Pradeep Kumar, and tax assistant Sanchit have been apprehended, and the bribe cash was recovered.
Searches have been carried out at 5 areas, together with premises related to the accused, resulting in the invention of Rs 5 lakh in money and pertinent paperwork. The CBI continues its investigation into the case.
