New Delhi: On Wednesday, Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against nine senior Income Tax
officials including Principal Commissioner Income Tax, Delhi S K Mittal and
three private persons for allegedly indulging in corrupt practices as it
carried out searches at 17 locations across the country.
CBI sources said residential and
official premises of the officials and a chartered accountant Sanjay Bhandari
were searched during the country-wide operations on Wednesday which
covered 17 locations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and
Khammam in Telangana.
The sources claimed that CBI
recovered documents related to properties worth Rs 2.6 crore, cash of Rs 16
lakh, 4.25 kg of gold jewellery besides 13 kg of silver articles during
searches at the premises of one of the officials.
They claimed that from another
official Fixed Deposit Receipts worth Rs 68 lakh were recovered. Underlining
that these were initial recoveries, they said the searches are still going on
and that more recoveries could be made.
Besides Mittal, the agency registered
case against Income Additional Commissioner (exemption) Bangalore, T N Prakash,
Deputy Commissioner (exemption) Chennai, R V Haroon Prasad, Deputy Commissioner
(investigation) Chennai, S Murali Mohan, Commissioner (audit-2) Chennai,
Vijayalakshmi, Additional Commissioner Mumbai, S Pandian, Commissioner (DR)
ITAT Mumbai, G Lakshmi Baraprasad, Additional Director General (systems-4)
Ghaziabad, Vikram Gaur and Additional Director (investigation) Mumbai, Rajendra
Kumar, CBI sources said.
A chartered accountant Sanjay
Bhandari and his sons Shreyans and Divyang are also named as accused in the
case, the sources said.
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