MUMBAI: CBI arrested an income tax inspector, Subhash Yadav, posted in Scindia House that housed I-T Investigation Wing in Ballard Estate area of South Mumbai, while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15 lakh from a complainant.Subhash Yadav had allegedly demanded the money to ensure the closure of a case relating to a benami property that was pending before Income Tax Department’s Benami Prohibition Unit. CBI produced him before the court on Wednesday and the court remanded him to two days’ CBI custody.CBI searched Yadav’s premises and recovered Rs 11 lakh in cash and incriminating documents from his house. CBI informed the remand court that Yadav did not cooperate in the investigation and gave an evasive reply about the bribe money and others involved in the case.CBI seized the electric devices for Yadav for examination. CBI is investigating the detail of Yadav’s work and access to the secret information of Benami Prohibition Unit-I of Income Tax Department; the arrested accused was transferred from the said unit in June 2026 and is currently working in the investigation unit of Income Tax.The complainant had received an I-T notice in Feb and attended the income tax office at Scindia House, where he submitted his explanation to a senior officer in the presence of Yadav and another I-T inspector. The inspectors subsequently repeatedly called him, insisting that he return to Scindia House for further discussion about the case. After meeting him at Scindia House, the two inspectors took him to a nearby roadside tea stall and allegedly demanded the bribe. Reluctant to pay, complainant sought CBI action against the officials.CBI laid a trap for them and caught Yadav red-handed while he was accepting the bribe of Rs 15 lakh from the complainant on Tuesday.While granting CBI custody on Wednesday, the court stated, “The police custody of accused is claimed by CBI for conducting detail investigation regarding the involvement of other accused persons in the said crime and for investigating into the digital devices of the arrested accused and for collecting the specimen voice sample.”
