{"id":74873,"date":"2026-01-26T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:31:03","slug":"gst-officer-caught-for-accepting-rs-3-5-lakh-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74873","title":{"rendered":"GST officer caught for accepting Rs 3.5 lakh bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST officer caught for accepting Rs 3.5 lakh bribe<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 26-1-2026<BR>PTI<BR>Palakkad (Kerala), Jan 26 (PTI) A GST enforcement officer was caught red-handed by the VACB for accepting a bribe of Rs 3.5 lakh to release two lorries seized with scrap load here, officials said on Monday.<br \/>\nThe accused was identified as Suman P N, an enforcement officer with the Walayar GST Enforcement Squad and a native of Kurudikkad in Palakkad district.<br \/>\nThe Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) officials said this was one of the highest bribe amounts detected in recent trap cases.<br \/>\nAccording to the VACB, the complainant and his friend jointly run a scrap business and had collected scrap from various dealers with valid bills.<br \/>\nWhile transporti<\/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=68563\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST officer caught for accepting Rs 3.5 lakh bribeGSTDated:- 26-1-2026PTIPalakkad (Kerala), Jan 26 (PTI) A GST enforcement officer was caught red-handed by the VACB for accepting a bribe of Rs 3.5 lakh to release two lorries seized with scrap load here, o<\/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-74873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74873","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=74873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}