NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against unknown officials of its anti-corruption unit and a New Delhi-based
caterer for allegedly attempting to manage a case against an
IRS officer in return of huge illegal gratification.
The caterer – Rakesh Tiwari, who runs his service in the upmarket Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri, has also been arrested on Wednesday while one of the instalments of bribe – Rs 15 lakh was being delivered to some accused people. During raids,
CBI has also recovered Rs 2.5 crore cash from him.
CBI had registered a case last year against
Vivek Batra, a 1992 batch IRS officer, who was posted as additional commissioner income tax, Mumbai, for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets (DA) worth Rs 6.79 crore between 2008 and 2017. This was second case against Batra by CBI. Earlier, he was probed in 2005 for allegedly accumulating assets worth Rs 1.27 crore, disproportionate to his known sources of income. Batra had allegedly invested his ill-gotten wealth in a company called M/s Viraj Profiles Ltd.
Officials said on Wednesday that while probing the assets of Vivek Batra, they had called for questioning the employees of Viraj Profiles.
Sources said that Tiwari told one of the executives of Viraj – Neeraj Raja Kochar and Batra that he can facilitate “relief” and provide case related “sensitive information” to them as he had influence in the Anti-Corruption – 3 Unit of CBI, which was probing Batra and Viraj.
Tiwari accepted huge illegal gratification from Kochar to induce and influence several CBI officers using his personal connections with them, officials said.
An alleged bribe of Rs 20 lakh was given by Kochar through a hawala operator in Dariba, Chandni Chowk Kamal Ahmed for Tiwari on August 2, 2018.
Sources said they have identified its officers who were involved with the accused persons and a strong action will be taken against them.
