The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested the Superintendent of Central GST and Central Excise, Berhampur, while accepting a bribe of ₹ 15,000 from the complainant in lieu of processing his GST refund.

“A case was registered by CBI on July 9. It was alleged that the accused demanded a bribe of ₹ 20,000 from the complainant on the ground that the accused had earlier processed a refund of GST amounting to ₹ 1.77 lakh to the complainant and on the ground of smoothly processing another GST refund of nearly ₹ 3 lakh to the complainant,” the investigating agency in a press release said.

The CBI laid a trap and the accused superintendent of Central GST & Central
Excise, Berhampur, was arrested by the agency from the Office of Assistant Commissioner, Central GST and Central Excise, Berhampur, when he was caught red-handed while accepting the first instalment of bribe amount of ₹ 15,000 out of the total
demanded bribe amount of ₹ 20,000, from the complainant.

Searches were conducted at the residential and official premises of the accused at Berhampur and Bhubaneswar. Incriminating documents were recovered from the searches.