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Jun 05, 2012, 08.14 AM IST
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested four senior income tax officers in an alleged bribery case. Those arrested included director, investigations, Kunal Singh of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) who is currently posted as director, investigations in Kanpur
The agency arrested IRS officer Kunal Singh, joint director, investigations Ratan Singh, also an IRS officer, assistant commissioner Uma Kant and income tax inspector Harish Daundiyal, CBI sources said. Pankaj Bajaj, managing director of realty firm Eldeco which has been under the scanner for alleged tax evasion, and chartered accountant Anil Jaiswal were also arrested by the agency during the operation, sources said. Repeated attempts to call Eldeco were unanswered. The e-mails sent on the ID given on the group's website bounced back. The action comes after searches conducted by the CBI on Sunday night at several locations, CBI sources said. Sources said based on a tip-off that the officers were allegedly accepting bribe to settle a tax-evasion cases, CBI had carried out searches at various locations. Kunal Singh, who was heading the probe and criminal investigation units of the I-T department, along with his team had recently conducted search operations against officials of the Greater Noida Authority and private real estate players besides carrying out I-T raids in Uttar Pradesh and in the National Capital Region.
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