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The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) connected Monday arrested an Assistant Commissioner of Commercial Taxes and her hubby connected charges of demanding and accepting bribe. The arrested person been identified arsenic Maheswari (48) and her hubby Dhanasekaran.
According to the DVAC, a existent property institution had claimed Input Tax Credit (ITC) successful excess by mistake, for which Maheswari served a notice. The steadfast reversed the excess ITC it had claimed and filed the response.
DVAC Additional Superintendent of Police C. Rajesh said the Assistant Commissioner initially demanded a bribe of ₹1 lakh for closing the file, which she aboriginal reduced to ₹75,000 and past yet to ₹60,000.
According to the officer, the Assistant Commissioner gave the mobile fig of Dhanasekaran to the accountant of the steadfast and asked to manus implicit the bribe to him
Unwilling to wage the bribe, the accountant, connected behalf of the firm, approached the DVAC bureau with a complaint, based connected which a trap was laid nether the supervision of Inspector G. Arumugam. The accountant was asked to travel to a spot adjacent Avinashi Road connected Monday and manus implicit the bribe to Dhanasekaran wrong his car.
The DVAC team, assisted by Inspector Ezhilarasi, was waiting successful different conveyance adjacent and caught Dhanasekaran red-handed erstwhile helium accepted the bribe magnitude connected behalf of his wife, said Mr. Rajesh.
