Patna: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against five accused, including the then principal commissioner of income-tax (PCIT), Patna & Dhanbad, Santosh Kumar, and four others in a case related to a bribery of Rs 10 lakh, the agency said here on Tuesday.
“On the basis of the information disclosing the commission of a cognizable offence, CBI registered a case on August 26 this year on allegations that the said PCIT was demanding and accepting illegal gratification from different assesses of income-tax under his jurisdiction to cause undue benefit to them by abuse of his official position. It was also alleged that there were several conduits who were working on behalf of the then PCIT (Patna & Dhanbad),” the central investigating agency said.
The CBI laid a trap at the income-tax office in Patna on August 26 when Santosh and another man, Rajiv Kumar alias Chiku, a resident of Ashoka Palace, Exhibition Road (Patna), were intercepted and detained while transacting the bribe amount of Rs 10 lakh in the office of income-tax at Ayakar Bhavan here.
“Further, the role of three more persons – Gurpal Singh, Ashok Chaurasia (both residents of Katras Road, Dhanbad) and Dr Pranay Purbay – also came to the fore in the course of the investigation before the trap,” the agency said.