CBI arrests 2 including I-T inspector for taking Rs 10 Lakh bribe

Kolkata: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two persons, including an Income Tax inspector, on alleged charges of taking bribe of Rs 10 lakh.

Income Tax inspector Dharmsheel Agrawal, who was working in the office of joint commissioner of Income Tax of Range-III in Lucknow, was arrested along with one Samrat Chandra. A case was registered in this connection under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the Income Tax inspector.

It was alleged that the Income Tax inspector had demanded an illegal gratification of Rs 25 lakh for releasing FDRs worth around Rs 7 crore of a Kolkata-based private company. The FDRs were seized by the Income Tax department. The Income Tax inspector had finally agreed to take the money in phases. In the first phase he agreed to take Rs 10 lakh. CBI officers caught him and another person from Lucknow while accepting the money.