This story is from September 9, 2017

Four income tax officers arrested for `favouring' private companies

Four income tax officers arrested for `favouring' private companies
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NEW DELHI: Probing a major corruption scandal in the income tax department, the CBI on Friday arrested four income tax officers (ITOs) for allegedly favouring private companies in their tax assessment.
The agency also filed a chargesheet against a principal commissioner of the I-T department, Tapas Kumar Dutta, and 13 others in connection with the same case. Dutta, posted at Ranchi, was arrested last month by the agency for alleged irregularities.
On Friday , CBI arrested four I-T officers, Ranjit Kumar Lal, Sunil Kumar Gupta, both posted at Ranchi, Tarun Roy , posted at Koderma and Vinod Kumar Pal, posted at Hazaribagh.
CBI spokesperson said that the officers, in connivance with the principal commissioner, were allegedly providing undue favours to businessmen, who were slapped with heavy tax liabilities, in return for huge bribes. Following the FIR, raids were conducted at 23 premises (18 in Kolkata, five in Ranchi) of the accused persons.
“Rs 3.7 crore in cash, 6.6 kg gold and some incriminating documents, including one related to a flat worth Rs 4 crore were recovered during the raids of the premises and a locker of the principal commissioner,“ the CBI spokesperson said. It has been alleged that the I-T officials, businessman, CA and some entry operators connived for getting income tax files of their different assessee companies transferred from Kolkata Hazaribagh to Ranchi for providing undue favour to those assessees, who have been charged with heavy tax liabilities. Dutta allegedly issued favourable orders in the case of private companies, who already paid huge bribe, which has been stashed with a private person.
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