Overview
- Five people were arrested, including Deputy Commissioner Prabha Bhandari and CGST superintendents Anil Kumar Tiwari and Ajay Kumar Sharma, along with advocate Naresh Kumar Gupta and businessman Rajendra (Raju) Mangtani.
- CBI teams laid a trap on December 30 and caught the two superintendents allegedly accepting Rs 70 lakh in cash said to be on behalf of the deputy commissioner.
- Searches after the arrests recovered about Rs 1.60 crore in cash as well as property documents, jewellery and bullion, according to officials.
- The operation followed information that members of a syndicate were seeking Rs 1.5 crore to extend favourable treatment in GST evasion matters involving private firms.
- The accused are to be produced before a competent court after medical examinations, and the CBI states that further actions may follow as the probe progresses.