NEW DELHI: The CBI has arrested an Income Tax Commissioner, B B Rajendra Prasad, and Essar group’s Managing Director Pradeep Mittal along with four others in a Rs two crore bribery case.
Prasad, a 1992 batch Indian Revenue Service officer handling appeals related to tax matters in Mumbai office, had allegedly demanded the bribe of Rs two crore for an order favouring the Balaji Trust in which Essar group is the main trustee, CBI sources said today.
While two people, including Prasad, were arrested in Visakhapatnam, the other four were nabbed in Mumbai.
Recapping the events leading to the high-profile arrests, CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said Prasad had asked that the money be delivered to the Mumbai residence of real estate agent Suresh Kumar Jain’s relative Manish Jain who then transferred it to an agent in Visakhapatnam. (AGENCIES)
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