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The complainant past purportedly asked the accused officers to nonstop the notices to himself and his lawyer truthful the aforesaid could beryllium verified. (Representational Image)
The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) connected Thursday said it detained 2 officers of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) and a 3rd idiosyncratic successful Ahmedabad connected charges of corruption.
Mohammad Rizwan Shaikh, Superintendent of Central Tax, CGST Audit, Ahmedabad Class-II and Kuldeep Mulchand Kushwah, Inspector, CGST Audit, Ahmedabad Class-III, on with 1 Bhowmik Bharatbhai Soni, were detained connected Thursday.
A connection from the ACB said that officials, led by Inspector AK Chauhan, laid a trap and purportedly caught Soni and the Superintendent “red-handed” accepting a bribe.
The complainant and his member were moving a bullion firm, according to the statement. The accused Superintendent Shaikh had served them a announcement to behaviour an audit of the accounts of the steadfast for the fiscal twelvemonth from July 2017 to March 2023, according to which Inspector Kushwah visited the complainant’s firm.
Later on, the accused allegedly told the complainant that helium was liable to wage a punishment of Rs 35 lakh owed to “problems” successful their accounts for the fiscal twelvemonth 2019-20.
The complainant past purportedly asked the accused officers to nonstop the notices to himself and his lawyer truthful the aforesaid could beryllium verified.
Then, the 2 accused allegedly made the complainant archetypal wage a good of Rs 27,000 and past sought a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh to “end” the matter. It was aft this that the ACB laid the purported trap.
Further probe is underway.
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