Jaipur, Sep 10 (PTI) Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday arrested the joint commissioner of the commercial tax department for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 8 lakh in Udaipur, officials said.
ACB Director General Ravi Prakash Mehrda said that the complainant had stated that the accused officer had demanded the bribe in exchange for not taking any action on a GST survey report of his resort.
Following the verification of the complaint, the ACB team caught joint commissioner Ravindra Jain red-handed while accepting the bribe -- Rs 1 lakh in Indian currency and Rs 7 lakh in dummy notes -- from the complainant in Udaipur on Tuesday.
The accused officer has been placed under arrest under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the matter is being investigated further.
(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)













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