PICS: Income Tax deputy commissioner, politician-husband held for taking R 10 lakh bribe

Bhopal: A senior Income Tax officer and her husband, a Bjp leader, have been arrested by CBI for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 10 lakh from a builder here. Poonam Rai, a deputy commissioner of Income Tax department, and her husband Ganesh Malaviya were apprehended here last night. The IRS officer had allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs. 25 lakh from the owner of Ramayan Constructions to correct discrepancies in the company's I-T returns. On a complaint from the builder, the central agency laid a trap and caught a person, who works with Malaviya and had taken Rs. 10 lakh from the developer as part of the bribe money, from a Chartered Accountant's office in MP Nagar area.