{"id":74641,"date":"2025-12-23T19:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:01:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:01:03","slug":"cbi-arrests-cgst-official-for-accepting-rs-5-lakh-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74641","title":{"rendered":"CBI arrests CGST official for accepting Rs 5 lakh bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBI arrests CGST official for accepting Rs 5 lakh bribe<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 23-12-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Dec 23 (PTI) The CBI has arrested a Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) superintendent in Mumbai for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a private company after threatening the firm with a tax demand of Rs 98 lakh, officials said Tuesday.<br \/>\n Ankit Aggarwal, posted as Superintendent in CGST-1, Mumbai made a demand of Rs 20 lakh from the company but during negotiations he dropped it to Rs 17 lakh and sought immediate part payment of Rs 5 lakh to be delivered on Monday, they said.<br \/>\n The director of the company approached the CBI with a complaint on Monday following which the agency registered a case and planned a trap operation <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=65659\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBI arrests CGST official for accepting Rs 5 lakh bribeGSTDated:- 23-12-2025PTINew Delhi, Dec 23 (PTI) The CBI has arrested a Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) superintendent in Mumbai for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a private compan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}