JALANDHAR: Vigilance Bureau(VB) on Friday arrested a Hoshiarpur based
assistant commissioner Sales Tax
(GST) Mobile Wing and a Tanda based chartered accountant when they were
accepting bribe of Rs two lakh from a marriage palace owner. According
to VB the CA was working as a
conduit for the assistant commissioner.
VB SSP
Diljinder Singh Dhillon
said that Tanda based Tara Singh, who owns White House Resort in the
town, had complained that on February 28 this year GST department raided
his establishment and after inspecting the records also seized some
account books. The team was headed by assistant commissioner Harmeet
Singh who called Tara Singh and his CA Raman Sondhi to his office in
Hoshiarpur on April 1.
“When Tara Singh and his CA met the official in latter’s office that
they had not filed GST return for 11 months and they could face penalty
of Rs one crore. Baffled marriage palace owner pleaded that so much
penalty was not possible and he would simply not be able to pay such
heavy amount as business was also not brisk. After some pleadings he
scaled down to Rs 50 lakh and after more haggling the official settled
for Rs 20 lakh stating that Rs eight had to be deposited as GST in the
bank account of the department, five lakh would be penalty which would
be decided later and Rs seven lakh would be bribe,” SSP said.
The complainant told the VB that he had already deposited Rs eight
lakh in the account of the department and then he was forced to pay Rs
2.5 lakh through the CA and on April 14 he was again forced to pay Rs
50,000 more through.
“On April 10 he again sought Rs two lakh and told that he should
arrange it within a couple of days. He asked them to keep the money at
marriage palace and he would pick it from there. Tara Singh arranged the
money and informed the Assistant Commissioner and when he and CA were
receiving the graft money of Rs two lakh they were caught red handed by
the VB sleuths led by DSP
Dalbri Singh. They have booked under provisions of Rs
Prevention of Corruption Act.
JALANDHAR: Vigilance Bureau(VB) on Friday arrested a Hoshiar ..
JALANDHAR: Vigilance Bureau(VB) on Friday arrested a Hoshiar ..
JALANDHAR: Vigilance Bureau(VB) on Friday arrested a Hoshiar ..
JALANDHAR: Vigilance Bureau(VB) on Friday arrested a Hoshiar ..