Central Bureau of Investigation,CBI on Thursday arrested a Principal Commissioner of Income Tax and an Income Tax Officer in an alleged bribery case of Rs. 10 lakh.
It was alleged that the Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, PCIT Thiruvananthapuram who was also holding charge of PCIT, Kottayam had demanded Rs. 10 lakh to give a favourable report on the Income Tax survey conducted on a jewellery shop based in Kottayam.
The amount was to be delivered by the Chartered Accountant of the said shop to the Principal Commissioner of Income Tax through the partner of a construction company.
CBI conducted searches and recovered Rs. 10 lakh from the partner of the construction company. Searches were also conducted at 9 places including Kottayam, Thiruvananthpuram and also few places outside Kerala at the office and residence of accused persons which led to recovery of several incriminating documents, files relating to the assessments, computers, laptops, cellphones and cash of Rs. 12.5 lakh.
The arrested accused were produced today before the Designated Court in Thiruvananthapuram and remanded to three days Police Custody.
A case was registered by the agancy under sections of Indian Penal Code and various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act against Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Kottayam, an Income Tax Officer working in the office of CCIT, Thiruvananthapuram, a Chartered Accountant, Kottayam, a Proprietor of Kottayam based private Jewellery Company and a Managing Partner of company at Kottayam and unknown others in the case.