Graft: Faridabad CA gets 3 yrs

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, September 16

A special CBI court today sentenced a charted accountant to three-year rigorous imprisonment for accepting a bribe of Rs 60,000 in an income tax assessment case.

The convict, identified as Suman Kumar (40) of Faridabad, Haryana, had demanded a bribe of Rs 2 lakh (later negotiated to Rs 1.5 lakh) from Subhash Chand, the proprietor of a Faridabad-based tech company, on behalf of the Income Tax Officer Radhey Shyam Sharma for “setting a matter of assessment of the income tax”.

Kumar agreed to accept Rs 60,000 as the first installment.

Meanwhile, Chand, approached the CBI and filed a complaint against the charted accountant to take necessary action. After preliminary verification, the CBI laid a trap and caught the convict while accepting the bribe from the complainant.