Berhampur: The CBI has arrested Superintendent of Central GST & Central Excise, Berhampur Manoj Kumar Subudhi for accepting a bribe of Rs. 15,000 from a complainant in lieu of processing his GST refund.
CBI sources here on Thursday said a case was registered against Manoj Kumar Subudhi, Superintendent of Central GST & Central Excise, Berhampur on July 9 on the basis of the complaint against him.
It was alleged that Subudhi demanded a bribe of Rs. 20,000 from the complainant on the ground that the accused had earlier processed a refund of GST amounting to Rs. 1.77 lakh to the complainant and on the ground of smoothly processing another GST refund of nearly Rs. 3 lakh to the complainant.
The CBI laid a trap and Subudhi was arrested by CBI from the Office of Assistant Commissioner, Central GST & Central Excise, Berhampur after he was caught red-handed while accepting the first instalment of bribe amount of Rs. 15,000 out of the total demanded bribe amount of Rs. 20,000 from the complainant.
Searches were conducted at the residential and official premises of the accused at Berhampur and Bhubaneswar which led to recovery of incriminating documents.
CBI sources said Subudhi is being produced before the Court of Special Judge for CBI cases at Bhubaneswar during the day.
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