BHOPAL: An assistant commissioner of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) posted in western Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths while accepting a Rs 1.5 lakh bribe.
Posted in Ratlam district for around a year, CGST assistant commissioner Shankar Parmar was caught red-handed by the CBI anti-corruption sleuths from Bhopal while accepting the bribe from the head of a gutkha trading firm from Jaora (Ratlam) on Tuesday.
The CBI initiated the trap-based action against the CGST official based on a complaint by the firm’s head, who had reported to the central investigation agency about Parmar demanding a Rs 5 lakh bribe for stopping the initiation of action against the firm.
Earlier, the CBI registered an instant case on Tuesday against Parmar and a private person, following allegations that the accused official was demanding a Rs 5 lakh bribe through a private person or middleman for not initiating GST proceedings against the complainant firm.
Subsequently, the CBI sleuths laid a trap and caught the official red-handed while accepting Rs 1.5 lakh bribe through the middleman at his office.
Further, the CBI team also conducted a detailed search at the CGST official’s premises till late on Tuesday night.
On Wednesday, the CBI team from Bhopal took the arrested CGST assistant commissioner from Ratlam to Indore for production before the designated special CBI court in the central Indian state’s commercial capital.