New Delhi: The CBI on Friday registered four fresh cases against principal commissioner income-tax (Ranchi) Tapas Kumar Dutta, who is now under suspension, in connection with the alleged favours granted by him to businessmen.
Dutta was arrested by the CBI last year in a case of alleged bribery for giving tax relief to several businessmen who were slapped with severe tax liabilities by the income-tax department. The CBI had said Dutta, who was Ranchi’s principal commissioner income-tax, allegedly entered in to a criminal conspiracy with the officials of his department, businessmen, a chartered accountant and several entry operators.
The alleged conspiracy was to get income-tax assessment files of different assessee firms transferred from Kolkata and Hazaribagh to Ranchi, where Dutta was posted, for providing undue favour to the assesses, charged with heavy tax liability, in return for a huge bribe, sources alleged.
