Deputy Director of I-Tax department surrenders in a city court

New Delhi, May 27 (UNI) Income Tax Deputy Director (Investigations), Satish Kumar, who was booked in a bribery case, surrendered in a city court today, which remanded him to 14-day judicial custody.

Patiala House Court Special Judge Indermit Kaur Kochchar, remanded Kumar to judicial custody till June 9, as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was unaware of the fact that Kumar has surrendered before the court.

The CBI on May 25 has laid a trap on the complaint of Ramesh Juneja, MD of a Delhi-based pharmaceutical company and caught the senior I-T official accepting Rs 8 lakh, but he managed to give the sleuths the slip.

The CBI even detained his wife Meenu, Additional Director, Customs posted in Noida.

The CBI conducted raids at the couple's two houses in Noida and and claimed to have unearthed assets worth several crores of rupees.

The assets include several pieces of 'benami' land in Meerut and 15 bank accounts in Delhi and Meerut, said a senior CBI official.

Kumar has also been booked for trying to injure a senior CBI personnel. He had allegedly tried to crash his car into the CBI vehicle when it was chasing to nab him.

CBI has arrested the driver and Kumar's ''middleman'' Amar Singh Kain.

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