Income Tax deputy commissioner held in StockGuru scam

CBI has arrested an IRS officer for allegedly receiving bribes from the perpetrator of the StockGuru scam, Ulhas Prabhakar Khaire. CBI sources said Yogendra Mittal, a 2006-batch IRS officer who was posted as the Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax, was arrested on the allegations that, as the ADIT-Income Tax, he had received illegal gratification worth crores of rupees from Khaire in exchange for an assurance that he would settle his case.