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Cash-on-hidden-camera: 28 Sales Tax employees suspended: [India News]: New Delhi |
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Twenty-eight employees of the Sales Tax Department, including ten officers,
were today suspended after a TV channel aired tapes purportedly showing them accepting
bribe. Four Sales Tax Officers, six Assistant Sales Tax Officers and 18 clerical
level staff, including 16 Upper Division Clerks, who were identified in the tapes,
had been suspended pending inquiry, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit told reporters.
FIRs had also been lodged against the officers, she added. 'Aaj Tak' channel had
yesterday aired tapes purportedly recorded by a hidden
camera which showed 82 employees of the department accepting bribe for registration
of companies and issuing C-Forms which are essential for inter-state trading and
assessment of sales tax.
Dikshit said the Sales Tax department had also been directed
to identify lower-level staff seen in the tapes and take action against them.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau carried out raids on the premises of five of the suspended
employees this morning, Finance Minister A K Walia said. While he did not divulge
whether any seizures were made today, he said raids would continue. Dikshit also
announced that her Government planned to install closed-circuit television in
all departments where the public had to interact with officials. from Newkerala |
