Superintendent of Central Excise and Service Tax Dept caught taking bribe
- 5 years ago
Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Monday nabbed a superintendent in the department of Central Excise and Service Tax red-handed while receiving bribe of Rs 20,00,000 in Ludhiana.
“A team of Vigilance Bureau, headed jointly by the DSP Bikramjit Singh and DSP Gurpreet Kaur Purewal along with Inspectors Sukhdev Singh and Baljinder Singh, nabbed Superintendent Amarjit Singh Dhaliwal red handed while receiving an amount of Rs 20,00,000 as bribe,” said an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau.
He said that the trap was laid on the complaint of one Gurdeep Singh Jujhar of Ludhiana. In his complaint, Gurdeep Singh had said that a case relating to the audit of the Excise and Service Tax of his company, Fastway Citizens Cable Limited, was lying pending with the Superintendent AS Dhaliwal of the concerned department.
He had alleged that the Superintendent asked him to give an amount of Rs 3 crore as bribe for the settlement of his audit cases lying pending with him. But later, it was settled that Rs 2 crore would be paid to the officer concerned for the final settlement of the pending cases, he added.
“An amount of Rs 60 lakh was asked to be given to the Superintendent before Diwali and the first installment of Rs 20,00,000 of the money settled was being handed over to Superintendent AS Dhaliwal in a hotel in Ludhiana where he was caught red handed in the presence of witnesses accepting the money from Gurdeep Singh,” said the spokesperson.
A case under sections 7, 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, in the Vigilance Bureau, Ludhiana, has been registered.
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“A team of Vigilance Bureau, headed jointly by the DSP Bikramjit Singh and DSP Gurpreet Kaur Purewal along with Inspectors Sukhdev Singh and Baljinder Singh, nabbed Superintendent Amarjit Singh Dhaliwal red handed while receiving an amount of Rs 20,00,000 as bribe,” said an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau.
He said that the trap was laid on the complaint of one Gurdeep Singh Jujhar of Ludhiana. In his complaint, Gurdeep Singh had said that a case relating to the audit of the Excise and Service Tax of his company, Fastway Citizens Cable Limited, was lying pending with the Superintendent AS Dhaliwal of the concerned department.
He had alleged that the Superintendent asked him to give an amount of Rs 3 crore as bribe for the settlement of his audit cases lying pending with him. But later, it was settled that Rs 2 crore would be paid to the officer concerned for the final settlement of the pending cases, he added.
“An amount of Rs 60 lakh was asked to be given to the Superintendent before Diwali and the first installment of Rs 20,00,000 of the money settled was being handed over to Superintendent AS Dhaliwal in a hotel in Ludhiana where he was caught red handed in the presence of witnesses accepting the money from Gurdeep Singh,” said the spokesperson.
A case under sections 7, 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, in the Vigilance Bureau, Ludhiana, has been registered.
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