Guwahati, July 22: CBI registered a case on complaint on July 21 against accused Inspector, CGST, Tezpur and a private person(middleman) of Balipara, Assam on allegations that accused demanded undue advantage of Rs. 5,00,000/- (five lakh) from the complainant for smooth functioning of his business of hardware store. It was also alleged in the complaint that accused compelled him to pay part of demanded bribe amount of Rs. 2,00,000/- (two lakh) on July 12 . It was alleged that accused, Inspector directed the complainant to handover the second installment of three lakh undue advantage to accused private person(middlemen).

CBI laid a trap and caught middleman red-handed while accepting said undue advantage of Rs. 3,00,000/- from the complainant on behalf of accused, Inspector, CGST, Tezpur. The accused middleman was arrested and produced before the competent Court.

Searches were conducted at the premises of accused at Balipara and Tezpur in Assam and at Jaipur and Churu in Rajasthan which led to recovery of unexplained cash amount of Rs. 9 lakh from the premises of accused middleman at Balipara and other incriminating documents.

Investigation is continuing, the investigating agency said.

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