CBI Files Charge-sheet against ADC of Income Tax - Bribery Case
CBI has filed a charge-sheet in the Court of the Special Judge for CBI Cases, Ahmedabad against an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, and four others(all private persons) in an alleged bribery of Rs. 30,00,000/- for obtaining an illegal gratification of Rs. 30,00,000/-(approx) on 25.03.2013, from a builder of Ahmedabad for passing a favourable order in assessment/ scrutiny proceedings being conducted by him against the firm of the builder, in respect of its Income Tax Return for the Assessment Year 2010-2011.
The Additional Commissioner, a 1994 batch IRS officer then working in Gandhinagar, was arrested by the CBI in February 2013. He was released on bail in May 2013 as the CBI did not file the charge-sheet even after 90 days, though the CBI told the court that the accused has committed a serious and grave offence in a pre-planned manner and is part of a well oiled network.
Now the CBI says it has filed the charge sheet - after nearly two years.