<p>The CBI has arrested three GST officials and a private individual in a Rs 10-lakh bribery case involving tax issues of an Odisha-based education trust, officials said Wednesday.</p>.<p>They said the agency laid a trap to take into custody GST and Central Excise Superintendents -- Artabhanjan Kar, Pradip Kumar Acharya and NN Sahoo -- and Accounts Officer of Centurion Institute of Technology in Jatni, Khurda, Ashutosh Padhy, they said.</p>.<p>They were caught exchanging the alleged bribe of Rs 10 lakh between them, the agency officials said.</p>.<p>Detailing how the case unfolded, the officials said the CBI has registered a case alleging a notice was issued to the Centurion Institute, imparting higher education in Management, Engineering etc, for submission of some documents for the financial year 2017-18.</p>.<p>The accused officials then went for an inspection and audit of the institute in the third week of December.</p>.<p>"It was further alleged that the accused demanded a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from the concerned official of the said Institute to settle the GST issues at a very less amount of tax and not to raise violation matters," CBI Spokesperson RC Joshi said.</p>.<p>He said searches were conducted at the premises of the accused at Jatni (Khurdha) and Bhubaneswar during which incriminating documents were recovered. </p>
<p>The CBI has arrested three GST officials and a private individual in a Rs 10-lakh bribery case involving tax issues of an Odisha-based education trust, officials said Wednesday.</p>.<p>They said the agency laid a trap to take into custody GST and Central Excise Superintendents -- Artabhanjan Kar, Pradip Kumar Acharya and NN Sahoo -- and Accounts Officer of Centurion Institute of Technology in Jatni, Khurda, Ashutosh Padhy, they said.</p>.<p>They were caught exchanging the alleged bribe of Rs 10 lakh between them, the agency officials said.</p>.<p>Detailing how the case unfolded, the officials said the CBI has registered a case alleging a notice was issued to the Centurion Institute, imparting higher education in Management, Engineering etc, for submission of some documents for the financial year 2017-18.</p>.<p>The accused officials then went for an inspection and audit of the institute in the third week of December.</p>.<p>"It was further alleged that the accused demanded a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from the concerned official of the said Institute to settle the GST issues at a very less amount of tax and not to raise violation matters," CBI Spokesperson RC Joshi said.</p>.<p>He said searches were conducted at the premises of the accused at Jatni (Khurdha) and Bhubaneswar during which incriminating documents were recovered. </p>