TIOL-DDT 705 · Monday, 24 September 2007 · story 7 of 9

Corruption charges to be framed against ex-IRS officer

A CBI court has ordered framing of charges against a suspended deputy commissioner of Income Tax and a personal assistant to a former Minister of State for Finance in a four-year-old corruption case. The Special Judge has ordered framing charges against Anurag Vardhan, a 1994 batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer who was suspended following his arrest by CBI in 2003 and R Perumalswamy, an assistant to then Minister of State for Finance, G Ramachandran.