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Excise inspectors held on charge of taking bribe

Staff Reporter

The accused remanded to two days’ CBI custody

“Asked a CD manufacturer for money for
not booking him under Excise Act”
Their voice samples may be taken to match
with recorded telephonic conversation

NEW DELHI: Two Central Excise Department inspectors have been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of demanding and receiving bribe from a manufacturer of compact discs for not booking him under the Excise Act.

The CBI received a complaint from the owner of a Mayapuri-based CD manufacturing unit recently alleging that Inspectors Surender Kumar Sangwan and Someshwar Thakur were demanding Rs. 5 lakh from him.

The trap

At the instance of the CBI officials, the complainant agreed to pay up the first instalment of Rs.2 lakh to the accused. He was asked to deliver the money on Tuesday.

Soon after Inspector Sangwan allegedly accepted the money, the CBI sleuths arrested him. During interrogation, he purportedly disclosed that his colleague Inspector Thakur was also involved. Inspector Sangwan was then told to contact the other accused over mobile phone and inform him that he had received the money. After Inspector Thakur allegedly asked Inspector Sangwan to demand Rs. 1 lakh more from the complainant, he too was arrested. According to a CBI official, the accused were produced in a Tis Hazari court on Wednesday that remanded them to two days’ CBI custody.

The agency may take their voice samples to match them with the recorded telephonic conversation.

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