Lady IRS Officer Sentenced to Three years
A CBI Court in Bangalore yesterday sentenced a woman Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax of the 2004 batch in a bribery case. The CBI laid a trap and the accused was caught red handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.2 lacs from the complainant on 2nd January, 2009.
The Trial Court found the accused guilty of the offence and convicted her with three years Simple Imprisonment and a fine of Rs.1.50 lacs. In trap cases, the CBI's success rate in getting conviction is almost 100 per cent.
A senior IRS officer told DDT, “in our days, about 80 percent of those joining the service were honest - today it is about 20 per cent!”
A young lady who must have struggled hard to get into the service is now in jail as a common criminal - all because of avarice.