Woman CA nabbed red handed accepting Rs 8 lakh bribe for Assistant IT commissioner

Ahmedabad: The Anti Corruption Bureau of Gujarat police has arrested a woman Chartered Accountant here and is trying to nab 3 others including an Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax in connection with a bribe case involving an amount of Rs 8 lakh.

Assistant Director of ACB, D P Chudasama today said Assistant IT commissioner here, Sureshchand Meena had demanded a bribe of Rs 8 lakh from the complainant for not doing his income related assessment.

The wife of a CA Sumit S Singhania, Namitaben who herself is also a CA, was yesterday caught red handed from a complex in Prahaladnagar taking the bribe on behalf of Meena. The ACB team that laid the trap also recovered Rs 8 lakh, he said.

‘We are also trying to nab the IT officer, the husband of the arrested woman CA and an employee of IT department Sunil Patni who had demanded a commission of Rs 50 thousand from the bribe money,’ Chudasama added.

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