Ex-Addil Commissioner of Income Tax sent to jail for 4 yrs

New Delhi, Feb 1, 2012, (PTI):

A former Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, arrested by CBI for demanding Rs one lakh as bribe for clearing a tax return matter, has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court.

Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh also imposed a fine of Rs four lakh on convict H A Siddiqui in the graft case registered against him in 2003 on a complaint by a chartered accountant M M Sachdeva.

"Prosecution (CBI) has been successful in proving that accused H A Siddiqui had demanded bribe of Rs one lakh from R P Katyal through his CA M M Sachdeva who is the complainant in this case.

"...The conversation recorded in office of the accused shows that demand of bribe was made by the accused in clear words and place of acceptance was to be fixed later on as he had taken the mobile phone number of Katyal," the court said.

According to CBI, Sachdeva had filed Katyal's income tax return for 2000-01 and it was selected for scrutiny assessment and a notice in this regard was received by Katyal on October 25, 2002.

Siddiqui started sending summons to them in this regard and called Katyal to pay Rs one lakh bribe, the agency said.

It said a trap team was constituted and it apprehended Siddiqui and one M C Gupta, who was a prosecution witness in the case, at the spot and money was recovered from the polybag carried by Gupta.

CBI had registered the FIR in the case on April 2, 2003, and had filed its chargesheet against Siddiqui in November that year.

During the trial, Siddiqui claimed innocence saying Sachdeva and Gupta, both chartered accountants, had tried to get undue advantage from him and when he refused to do so, they implicated him in a false case.

The court, however, said CBI has proved its case against Siddiqui beyond reasonable doubt.

The court also relied on reports regarding identification of voices saying that it has been proved beyond reasonable doubt that the voice samples were of Siddiqui, Sachdeva and Katyal.

"Report regarding identification of voices in the questioned recording as well as the specimen recording are proved beyond reasonable doubt being of accused (Siddiqui), the complainant and Katyal," it said.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/223733/ex-addil-commissioner-income-tax.html

Senior IAS officer held in Rs 125-cr scam

TNN Feb 2, 2012

KOLKATA: The CID arrested additional secretary Debaditya Chakraborty on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in a 125-crore scam, the first time such a senior IAS officer has been arrested in the state. R M Jamir, a retired IAS officer who was the director of a PSU at the centre of the scam, has also been held.

The arrests were confirmed by DIG, CID (operations) K Jayaraman. The two will be produced in court on Thursday, he said. Several agencies, including the detective department of Kolkata Police, were probing the scam for quite some time but had not received permission to arrest the IAS officer , sources said.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-02/kolkata/31016809_1_ias-officer-pratap-biswal-bharat-inmate

Excise commissioner held for taking bribe

Express news service : New Delhi, Sat Jan 14 2012

The CBI on Friday arrested Central Excise Commissioner Anup Kumar Srivastava after a local court dismissed his anticipatory bail plea in connection with his alleged role in a graft case. Srivastava was arrested by the agency soon after the private hospital, where he had got himself admitted for treatment, discharged him. According to sources, a team of doctors from AIIMS were supposed to examine him on the court’s orders but the hospital discharged him before this could be done.

The agency, meanwhile, also got three-day custody of Lallan Ojha, excise superintendent and co-accused in the case. Ojha, along with middleman Hemant Gandhi, was arrested by the CBI on January 2.

The top excise officer had sought anticipatory bail after being named as an accused for allegedly receiving a bribe of Rs 60 lakh from two businessmen. It was alleged that the accused persons conducted a fake search of the importer’s office on Srivastava’s instructions.

Swamy gets HC relief against arrest till Jan 30.

Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy was on Friday granted protection from arrest till January 30 by the Delhi High Court in an FIR lodged against him for writing an alleged inflammatory article.

Justice M L Mehta granted anticipatory bail to Swamy on an undertaking by him that he would not write such articles in the future and issued notice to the Delhi Police for its response on the anticipatory bail plea. While hearing the plea, Justice Mehta observed: “We are a secular country and we should respect the system we have.... It is not a European country. We have a diversity and we should be proud of it. If you (Swamy) give an undertaking that you will not write anything based on the book, I will grant you relief.”

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/excise-commissioner-held-for-taking-bribe/899587/

CBI arrests colonel, major for taking bribe

TNN | Dec 30, 2011, 04.12AM IST

JAIPUR: The CBI on Thursday arrested a colonel and a major for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 and Rs 20,000, respectively, at Sriganganagar. Both officers, who belong to Military Engineering Service were working at the Command Works Engineer there, CBI sources said.

Acting on the basis of an anonymous complainant, who is a contractor engaged in engineering works of the Army, the CBI laid a trap in which Colonel R K Bansal was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

"The army officer had asked the contractor to pay the bribe money at the highway near Abohar in Sriganganagar. While he was accepting the bribe, we caught him," DSP Y K Sharma said.

Major Anindya Roy was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 at his office in Srigananagar.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/CBI-arrests-colonel-major-for-taking-bribe/articleshow/11299014.cms

UP officer alleges corruption, cops dump him in hospital

Bhupendra Pandey, Sat, Nov 05, 2011, Lucknow:

IPS Devendra Dutt Misra is dragged from his office in Lucknow Friday.

A senior police officer was bodily lifted by police and dragged kicking and screaming from his office in Lucknow this evening, hours after he alleged massive corruption and embezzlement of funds in the purchase of equipment and other material. Police said the officer appeared to have a “mental problem”.

Devendra Dutt Misra, a deputy inspector general at the UP Fire Service Headquarters, had alleged earlier in the evening that the entire state government from the highest to the lowest levels was corrupt. He was compelled to speak, Misra said, because he had been awakened — “jaagrook ho gayaa hoon”.

Misra, who was promoted to the IPS in 1992 and is due to retire in two years, said he would make public files containing evidence of corruption. “I have told my wife and children that I can be murdered or sent to jail at any time,” he said.

He alleged that senior officials had siphoned off crores in the purchase of water tanks, and that Fire Service ADG Harish Chandra Singh had pressured him to clear the files.

ADG Singh denied the charge. ADG (Law & Order) Subesh Kumar Singh said he had received no complaints.

Late this evening, a police team stormed Misra’s office and took him to the CSMMU Trauma Centre. Lucknow DIG D K Thakur told The Indian Express that the DIG was “behaving abnormally and seemed to have some mental problem”.

Soon afterward, the state government issued a statement saying Misra’s allegations would be investigated and action will be taken.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/up-officer-alleges-corruption-cops-dump-him-in-hospital/871142/

Minister’s PA, assistant and clerk arrested for taking bribe

Express news service, Fri, Sep 23, 2011, Mumbai:

The Mumbai unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught the personal assistant (PA), assistant and clerk of the Minister for School Education red-handed for allegedly accepting bribe. The officials were arrested from Mantralaya after a trap was laid by the ACB.

According to ACB officers, PA Deepak Karande, clerk Pravin Bodke and assistant Prashant Andhare were arrested after they allegedly sought bribe from a complainant. “The complainant is the secretary of an educational institution. He had sent a proposal to start English medium in the institution for Class VIII to XII. The file was pending here, so the complainant went to meet Andhare,” said an ACB officer.

“Andhare told the complainant he will forward the file to higher authorities if he was given Rs 50,000. When the complainant said he couldn’t shell out such a large sum, Andhare told him to give Rs 30,000, failing which he would not send the file for approval,” said the officer.

Seeing that Andhare will not budge, the complainant paid him Rs 15,000. Andhare then told him that he will forward the file only when the complainant pays up the remaining amount. He also told him to speak to the minister’s PA for further work.

“The complainant then went to the PA, who asked him for Rs 90,000. Tired of paying bribes, he filed a written complaint against the assistant and the PA. A trap was then laid for them,” the officer said.

A team of ACB officials waited outside and as the two accused took bribe and were arrested. “They confessed that they asked for a bribe. The PA was caught while he was taking part payment of Rs 50,000. We also arrested the clerk Bodke who also asked the complainant for Rs 15,000. Further investigations are on,” said the officer.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ministers-pa-assistant-and-clerk-arrested/850439/

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