Mumbai, April 19: The CBI today nabbed Income Tax assistant commissioner Anjali Bambole, two days after the arrest of I-T additional commissioner Sumitra Banerjee and her husband Subratho for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1.50 crore from a builder.
According to the CBI’s Anti-Corruption Wing, Sumitra and her assistant Anjali had on March 24 examined the documents of a builder and conducted survey of his sites.
“Sumitra told the builder that tax liability of his firm would be Rs 25 crore. She gave an offer to the builder that the tax liability could be brought down to Rs two crore if he pays a bribe of Rs 1.50 crore to her,” CBI Joint Director (Western Region) Rishi Raj Singh said.
The builder, however, lodged a complaint with the CBI, which laid a trap and caught Sumitra red-handed while accepting the bribe.
–Agencies