Overview

• The arrested include IRS Assistant Director Aditya Saurabh, Income Tax Inspector Manish Kumar Pankaj and multi-tasking staffer Shubham Raj.
• The bribe was sought from a complainant whose brother-in-law’s Rs 13 lakh was seized at Patna airport.
• CBI agents laid a covert trap on July 16 and recovered the cash on the spot.
• Search teams conducted raids at three Patna locations on July 15 to collect further evidence.
• The case forms part of a wider CBI drive targeting systemic graft under India’s faceless tax assessment reforms.