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As many as 12 very senior officers of rank of Chief Commissioners, Principal Commissioners, Commissioners of Income Tax department were given transfer orders on charges of bribery, extortion and sexual harassment.
They were given compulsorily retirement under Rule 56 by Finance Ministry, said ministry sources on Monday.
The officers include Ashok Agarwal, joint commissioner of Income Tax and former deputy director, ED; S K Srivastava, commissioner (Appeal, NOIDA; Homi Rajvansh, IRS 1985 batch; B B Rajendra Prasad; Ajoy Kumar Singh; B Arulappa; Alok Kumar Mitra; Chander Saini Bharti; Andasu Ravinder; Vivek Batra; Swetabh Suman and Ram Kumar Bhargava.
Among those who received marching orders, Ashok Agarwal had faced serious allegations of corruption and extortion from businessman accused of helping late ‘godman’ Chandraswami. Agarwal was found to have acquired ill-gotten wealth to the tune of Rs 12 crore and faced a CBI inquiry.
S K Srivastava was accused of sexual harassment to two lady IRS officers of Commissioner rank.
He managed to get tax evasions petition filed through a Member of Parliament ( Jai Narayan Nishad) stating that the two lady IRS officers of Commissioner rank ( who were in vigilance department when Srivastava was suspended) had received huge income from corruption and prostitution.
He has been pressurizing for being promoted as Chief Commissioner of Income Tax.
In an as many as eight cases, High Court and CAT have passed strictures and warning and imposed fines for his scandalous allegations against the lady officers and other higher officers. In one case he has been order to undergo civil imprisonment of 15 days for his scandalous allegations against former Chairman and Members of CBDT. He has also filed contempt petitions against former Secretary Revenue.
Homi Rajvansh had acquired movable and immovable assets worth Rs.3,17,78,462 in the name of self and his family members.
He was arrested by CBI after absconding from his Headquarters to evade arrest. He was also placed under suspension following his arrest.
Rajvansh, while on deputation to NAFED as Addl. Managing Director had allegedly advanced huge amounts (totalling about Rs Two hundred and Ninety-One crores) to 9 companies without obtaining approval of Competent Authority.
B B Rajendra Prasad has allegations of obtaining illegal gratification in lieu of passing favorable appeal order in one case and was arrested by the CBI and the bribe consideration was recovered.
Ajoy Kumar Singh has a case of Disproportionate Assets (DA) against him and was arrested by the CBI in connection with the case.
Criminal Prosecution is pending against Ajoy Kumar Singh and the matter is being processed for initiation of disciplinary proceedings as advised by CVC and decided by the Bombay High Court.
B Arulappa proved to be ineffective as a Supervisory officer as he failed to ensure assignment of important cases having large tax implication to senior and experienced officers.
Alok Kumar Mitra was involved in many cases of corruptions and extortion. Passed many wrong and malafide assessment orders which were later on reversed by the appellate authorities.
Despite several complaints and departmental findings against him he managed to avoid action by filing cases in CAT etc.
Chander Sain Bharti was apprehended by CBI in connection with a trap case and the bribe money of Rs. 30 lakh was recovered from angadiya (courier) used by him and was found using hawala channels for transferring the ill-gotten money.
Andasu Ravindar was apprehended by CBI with an amount of Rs 50,00,000 with him and could not satisfactorily explain the source of that amount.
He received loans for himself and or his family members from various persons which were not intimated to the department.
Vivek Batra has been accused by CBI in 2005 of abuse of his official position to accumulate assets disproportionate to his known sources of income amounting Rs 1.27 Crore.
He has been alleged to be involved in dubious transactions related to accommodation entries of Share Capital and false capital Gains.
He was also facing a criminal case regarding forging the Will of his father-in-law Ashok Malik in collusion with his wife Priyanka Batra.
Swetabh Suman was arrested by CBI in New Delhi on April 13, 2018 for allegedly demanding Rs 50 lakh for giving relief in a shell company matter to a businessman. The amount was recovered from a middle-man and searches were carried out by CBI on the premises linked to Swetabh Suman in Guwahati, Jorhat, Shillong, Noida and Delhi. A sum of Rs 40 Lakh (approx) allegedly meant for Suman and his accomplices was also recovered from one of the accused and middleman. The matter is under investigation by CBI.
Ram Kumar Bhargava while holding the charge of TRO-4, Kanpur, initiated recovery proceedings against Ms Vaijanti Gupta. In the process he treated Mr Jitendra Kumar Shaw as assessee in default being a sundry debtor of Vaijanti Gupta and started recovery proceedings against Mr Shaw.
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