CBI arrests sacked Income Tax Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Srivastava

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Tuesday, arrested retired Income Tax Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Srivastava who was booked by the agency this July. Srivastava was sacked by the government earlier this year on charges of passing backdated appeal orders to obtain undue benefits as Commissioner of IT (Appeals) in Noida.

It is alleged that Srivastava as Commissioner, Income Tax (Appeals), Noida passed 104 backdated orders in June, 2019 -- the month he was given forced retirement by the government.

CBI had booked him on charges criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and corruption under the relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act for allegedly obtaining undue favours. The orders were backdated to December, 2018, according to the agency. Among these, 13 orders were not of his jurisdiction.


Srivastava was given compulsory retirement on June 10, 2019, but these orders were uploaded on the Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) between June 11 and June 13 by alleged misuse of RSA token, a kind of access system in the department, according to the agency.

According to the records, the orders were dispatched on June 7, 2019 -- three days before the government sacked Srivastava, but they were sent on June 14, 2019.

CBI had raided Srivastava’s residence in August this year and claimed to have recovered jewellery worth Rs 2.47 crore, Rs 16.44 lakh in cash, watches approximately valued at Rs 10 lakh, over Rs 1.30 crore of bank deposits in the name of the former officer as well as his family members, incriminating documents related to two immovable assets and a bank locker.