{"id":53244,"date":"2018-06-29T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T05:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=53244"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T05:49:16","slug":"bribery-case-two-senior-income-tax-officers-get-5-yr-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bribery-case-two-senior-income-tax-officers-get-5-yr-jail","title":{"rendered":"Bribery case: Two senior Income Tax officers get 5-yr jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mumbai:<\/b>\u00a0A special CBI court convicted an additional commissioner of Income Tax and an assistant I-T commissioner in a Rs 1.7 crore graft case of 2010 and sentenced them to five years&#8217; imprisonment on Thrusday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" data-attachment-id=\"53245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bribery-case-two-senior-income-tax-officers-get-5-yr-jail\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_xl\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?fit=800%2C535&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,535\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?resize=300%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/06\/a098c094326eb64cac2df93633224d75_XL.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The additional commissioner&#8217;s husband was also convicted and awarded four years in jail.<br \/>\nSpecial CBI judge Vivek Khathare sentenced additional commissioner Sumitra Banerjee, 49, a 1992 batch Indian Revenue Service officer, and assistant commissioner Anjali Bambole, 50, to five years&#8217; imprisonment for allegedly demanding Rs 1.7 crore bribe from a Thane-based builder.<\/p>\n<p>Banerjee&#8217;s husband Subroto, who was nabbed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) while accepting Rs 1.50 crore from the builder, was sentenced to four years&#8217; imprisonment.<br \/>\nThe judge also imposed a fine of Rs 80 lakh on Banerjee, Rs 30 lakh on her husband and Rs 40 lakh on Bambole.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CBI&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), the officers had sought the money from the builder for not converting a survey action into a search operation, which gives the I-T department powers to seize unaccounted assets.<br \/>\nOn March 24, 2010 a survey was conducted at the firm under Banerjee&#8217;s supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the two officers demanded Rs 2 crore from the builder claiming that the firm&#8217;s tax liability would be Rs 25 crore.<br \/>\nThe builder then approached the CBI and lodged a complaint following which a trap was laid to nab the accused.<br \/>\nAll the three accused were subsequently arrested. 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