<p align="justify" class="title">The CBI has arrested a commissioner of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) department from Kanpur and eight others, including his staff and private officials, in connection with an bribery case.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">According to agency sources, Sansar Chand, a 1986-batch Indian Revenue Service officer, posted as the commissioner, two superintendents of the department, one personal staff and five private people were nabbed by the CBI in a late-night operation spread across Kanpur and Delhi.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">They said it is claimed that the commissioner was a "habitual" offender, taking bribes from businessmen on a monthly and weekly basis, and it was during one such collection of Rs 1.5 lakh on Friday night that he was nabbed.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The man who reportedly gave the bribe has also been taken into custody, a source said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The sources said his wife is also named in the FIR but has not been arrested. </p>
<p align="justify" class="title">The CBI has arrested a commissioner of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) department from Kanpur and eight others, including his staff and private officials, in connection with an bribery case.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">According to agency sources, Sansar Chand, a 1986-batch Indian Revenue Service officer, posted as the commissioner, two superintendents of the department, one personal staff and five private people were nabbed by the CBI in a late-night operation spread across Kanpur and Delhi.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">They said it is claimed that the commissioner was a "habitual" offender, taking bribes from businessmen on a monthly and weekly basis, and it was during one such collection of Rs 1.5 lakh on Friday night that he was nabbed.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The man who reportedly gave the bribe has also been taken into custody, a source said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The sources said his wife is also named in the FIR but has not been arrested. </p>