A former GST Superintendent, Jitendra Kumar Dagur, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined Rs 5 lakh by a CBI court in Bengaluru. He was convicted in a bribery case dating back to March 2021, where he was accused of accepting Rs 25,000 to waive taxes and penalties. The CBI caught him accepting the bribe and subsequently filed charges.
The Special Judge for CBI cases in Bengaluru has delivered a verdict in the case involving Jitendra Kumar Dagur, the former Superintendent of Central Excise and Central Tax (GST). Dagur has been sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined Rs 5 lakh following his conviction in a bribery case.
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Jitendra Kumar Dagur, the former Superintendent of Central Excise and Central Tax (GST) in the Honnavar Range, Uttara Kannada, was sentenced.
He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined Rs 5 lakh.
Dagur was accused of soliciting and accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a complainant to waive taxes and penalties for the financial year 2015-2016.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) initiated proceedings against him on March 26, 2021.
The CBI apprehended Dagur in a trap, catching him red-handed while he was accepting the bribe.
Formal charges were pressed against him by the CBI on August 27, 2021.