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Income Tax official Jagadish arrested in graft case

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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Visakhapatnam


A senior assistant in the Income Tax Office at MVP Colony was trapped by the CBI officials while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.30,000 from the complainant for closing the complaint received against his wife.

The complainant received a notice from ITO of Ward 2 Siva Sankar Nayak directing his wife to file returns for the year 2013-14 by September 26. On September 21, B. Jagadish, the ITO of MVP Colony office contacted the complainant and informed that they had received a complaint against his wife alleging that she possesses several properties. Jagadish directed the complainant to meet him at the ITO, MVP Colony on September 26.

Jagadish told him that they had offices at both the places and asked him to come to the MVP office. When the complaint met him at his office, Jagadish demanded a bribe of Rs.50,000 and told him that Siva Sankar Nayak would close the complaint. The victim lodged a complaint with the CBI which laid a trap and arrested the accused.