The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday stated it detained two officers of the Central Items and Providers Tax (CGST) and a 3rd individual in Ahmedabad on costs of corruption.
Mohammad Rizwan Shaikh, Superintendent of Central Tax, CGST Audit, Ahmedabad Class-II and Kuldeep Mulchand Kushwah, Inspector, CGST Audit, Ahmedabad Class-III, together with one Bhowmik Bharatbhai Soni, had been detained on Thursday.
An announcement from the ACB stated that officers, led by Inspector AK Chauhan, laid a lure and purportedly caught Soni and the Superintendent “red-handed” accepting a bribe.
The complainant and his brother had been working a bullion agency, based on the assertion. The accused Superintendent Shaikh had served them a discover to conduct an audit of the accounts of the agency for the monetary yr from July 2017 to March 2023, based on which Inspector Kushwah visited the complainant’s agency.
Afterward, the accused allegedly advised the complainant that he was liable to pay a penalty of Rs 35 lakh as a consequence of “issues” of their accounts for the monetary yr 2019-20.
The complainant then purportedly requested the accused officers to ship the notices to himself and his lawyer so the identical may very well be verified.
Then, the 2 accused allegedly made the complainant first pay a tremendous of Rs 27,000 after which sought a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh to “finish” the matter. It was after this that the ACB laid the purported lure.
Additional investigation is underway.
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