Mumbai: A particular court docket on Thursday sentenced a 61-year-old former Workplace Superintendent of the Earnings Tax Division and a 51-year-old tax guide, who aided him in demanding Rs50,000 bribe from a storage proprietor in 2013, to a few years of rigorous imprisonment (RI).
The sexagenarian had demanded the cash in lieu of clearing the complainant’s Earnings Tax returns with out scrutiny. The court docket additionally imposed a advantageous of Rs20,000 on Sathyanarayana Vanam and Rs10,000 on guide Mehboob Shaikh.
Particular Decide SH Gwalani mentioned in the judgment that the court docket has stored in view the observations of the apex court docket with regard to the details of the case and the proved circumstances on report whereas deciding the sentence. Underlining that although leniency cannot be proven in direction of the accused, the court docket mentioned that minimal punishment prescribed for the offences must be thought-about.
In line with the storage proprietor, he and his spouse had been submitting the tax returns via Shaikh since 2009. He used to pay the guide Rs7,000 payment. As per the prosecution’s case, after getting ready the 2013 returns, Shaikh known as the complainant and knowledgeable him that an IT officer had demanded a Rs1 lakh bribe. He additional mentioned the official can be imposing Rs1.7 lakh tax on him if he fails to pay the quantity.
To which, the complainant replied that he was prepared to pay the respectable tax. Shaikh later instructed that the official had diminished the bribe quantity to Rs50,000. Even Vanam had reiterated the demand when he met the storage proprietor.
Primarily based on the criticism, the CBI laid a entice and caught Shaikh red-handed whereas accepting Rs20,000 from the man.
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