https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1789943.cms
Liquor bribe probe team shunted out
NEW DELHI: The income-tax officers who exposed the bribery case in which liquor manufacturers of UP allegedly paid over Rs 300 crore to top politicians and bureaucrats as reported by TOI on Friday have been shunted out to small towns and nondescript postings.
I-T director (investigations) P K Kedia, who led the probe against the liquor manufacturers'association, has been taken off the case and moved to the appeals section, one of the toothless wings of the department.
His deputy, additional director P S Tomar, has been transferred to Mathura and given the job of supervising I-T filings in the range.
Another officer, Shravan Kumar Gotru, who sent a notice to the wife of a leading politician from UP, is now in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. All in all, the investigation team, say I-T sources, has been dismantled and scattered.
Some I-T colleagues of these officers claim that the concerned taxmen were "instructed" to relinquish their posts before they could complete the 'appraisal report'in the payoffs case. Normally, the officer who conducts and supervises the raids, is responsible for finalising the 'appraisal report'.
Interestingly, Kedia had taken charge of the investigation wing of I-T in Delhi only six months before he was given marching orders.
Indeed, except Kedia, none of the officers on the case have completed eight years in Delhi, as they are supposed to under the transfer policy guidelines of the department.
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This is sickening.😡 Is this the way to treat honest and upright officers?