CBI arrests three I-T officials for accepting bribe

AHMEDABAD, JUNE 4, 2008 (PTI)

One Income Tax officer and two of his assistants were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on the charge of accepting bribe from an insurance agent.

The arrests were made by the Anti-Corruption Cell of CBI yesterday after an insurace agent filed a complaint against the Income-Tax officer and his assistants for demanding money to release his I-T refund, official sources said.

Acting on the complaint, the CBI officials laid a trap and caught the Income-Tax Officer S B Lad and his two assistants Ashok Kumar Bundela and Ashwa Singh Puwar, the sources said.

The IT officials were arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

CBI officials said the house and other properties, if any, of the officers will also be searched.

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