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The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) caught a Central GST officer, Mohammad Rizwan Sheikh, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh on Thursday. Sheikh, a superintendent at the CGST Audit department in Ahmedabad, was arrested alongside Inspector Kuldeep Mulchand Kushwaha and a middleman, Bhumikbhai Bharatbhai Soni. The arrests followed a complaint made to the ACB's toll-free number 1064, alleging that the officials had demanded a bribe to settle a purported error found in the 2019
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FAQ :
Central GST Superintendent Mohammad Rizwan Sheikh, Inspector Kuldeep Mulchand Kushwaha, and a middleman named Bhumikbhai Bharatbhai Soni were arrested.
The bribe amount was Rs 1.25 lakh.
The officials allegedly demanded the bribe to settle a purported error found in the 2019-20 financial accounts and to avoid a penalty.
The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) made the arrests.
The ACB received a complaint via their toll-free number 1064.
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