New Delhi
On Wednesday, CBI undertook searches at 17 locations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Khammam. Subsequent to the country-wide operation, it registered a case against nine senior Income Tax officials including Principal Commissioner Income Tax, Delhi S K Mittal, Additional Commissioner (exemption) Bengaluru T N Prakash, Deputy Commissioner (Investigation) Chennai, S Murali Mohan, Commissioner (Audit-2) Chennai, Vijayalakshmi, Additional Commissioner, Mumbai, S Pandian, Commissioner (DR) ITAT, Mumbai, G Lakshmi Baraprasad, Additional Director General (Systems-4) Ghaziabad Vikram Gaur and Additional Director (Investigation) Mumbai Rajendra Kumar, CBI sources said.
A chartered accountant Sanjay Bhandari and his sons Shreyansh and Divyang are also named as accused in the case, the sources said. Allegations against the officials include availing of favours including stay, conveyance and flight travel at the expense of the chartered accountant and his sons and helping him in the cases of his clients as quid pro quo.
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