New Delhi: The CBI has arrested two people, including a superintendent of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) in Uttar Pradesh, while they were allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh for waiving the penalty on a private company, officials said.
The other person arrested by the agency is a tax lawyer who was representing the complainant in the case, they said on Monday.
CGST Superintendent Nishan Singh Malli had allegedly issued a penalty notice to a businessman who controls the private company on account of non-filing of GST returns.
Malli, who is posted at Gajrola with additional charge of Amroha in UP, demanded Rs 4 lakh in collusion with tax lawyer Amit Khandelwal from the businessman for waiving off the penalty on his company, they said.
“The tax advocate was representing the complainant. However, he entered into a conspiracy with the superintendent, CGST, Amroha, and pressured the complainant to deliver the demand of undue advantage of Rs 4 lakh to the accused superintendent,” a CBI spokesperson said.
The businessman approached the CBI with a complaint expressing unwillingness to pay the bribe, the spokesperson said in a statement.
The agency laid a trap during which the superintendent and the advocate were arrested red-handed, taking Rs 1 lakh as the first instalment of the total Rs 4 lakh demanded as a bribe, the statement said.
