ACB in Gujarat nabs CGST inspector for taking Rs 75 thousand bribe from businessman

Ahmedabad:The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat police today nabbed a CGST inspector and his peon taking bribe of Rs 75 thousand from a businessman in his office premises in Surendranagar city.

Search for another CGST inspector involved in this bribery case was also on.

Assistant Director of the ACB, D P Chudasama said that CGST inspector R H Yadav (32) and his peon R V Joshi (37) were nabbed while the latter was accepting the bribe and talking to the former over phone. Another CGST inspector Gaurav Arora involved in the crime has not been arrested as yet.

The two inspectors had initially sought Rs 2.5 lakh bribe from the business, a snacks item dealer, for not charging penalty and taking other actions for changing his go-down without information and not mentioning the GST number on his sign board. They later agreed to take Rs 75 thousand. The businessman made a complaint in this regard to the ACB which laid a trap today to nab the culprits.

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