An employee of the Income Tax Department has been detained by the Central Bureau of Investigation after it was claimed that he assisted a colleague in escaping a trap that had been set by the Gujarat Anti Corruption Bureau in connection with a bribery charge in October of last year.
According to release from the CBI on Monday, Vivek Johri, who was at the time the assistant commissioner of income tax in Ahmedabad, was arrested for allegedly aiding IRS agent Santosh Karnani, who was at the time the additional commissioner of income tax, in escaping a trap on October 4.
According to an official, the trap was set when city-based builder Rupesh Brahmbhatt complained to the Gujarat ACB that Karnani had demanded a payment of Rs 30 lakh in exchange for not initiating action against him.
“When the ACB team reached the Income Tax office on Ashram Road to arrest Karnani after recovering Rs 30 lakh as part of the trap proceedings, Johri allegedly created ruckus which helped Karnani to flee from the spot,” said the release.
The CBI was then given the investigation by the Gujarati government, and on October 12 it filed a FIR.
Before escaping, Karnani gave Johri two cell phones, which he then tossed into the Sabarmati River to destroy the evidence, according to a CBI press release.
According to the statement, both mobile phones were extracted from the river with the aid of divers and other agencies utilising diving gear and a remotely controlled vehicle fitted with SONAR technology.
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