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A special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Rajkot has sentenced a retired Income Tax officer to four years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case dating back to 2019. Special ACB Judge V K Bhatt convicted 66-year-old Maulesh Mehta for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a share broker. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh, with an additional six months of simple imprisonment in case of non-payment. Bribery Incident in 2019 The incident occurred in March 2019 whe
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FAQ :
The retired Income Tax officer was sentenced to four years of rigorous imprisonment.
The bribe amount involved was £15,000.
The incident took place in March 2019.
The officer demanded the bribe to settle discrepancies in a share broker's Income Tax Returns for the financial year 2011-12.
Key evidence included secretly recorded conversations of the bribe demand and acceptance, confirmed by forensic voice analysis.
A fine of £1 lakh was imposed, with an additional six months of simple imprisonment for non-payment.
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