Days after cracking down on errant Income Tax officers, the government on Tuesday compulsorily retired 15 senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) on charges of demanding bribes, financial improriety to criminal conspiracy.

The crackdopwn comes seven days after Narendra Modi Government had sacked 12 senior officials of the Income Tax department for involving in such cases.
The officers in the rank of Principal Commissioner, Commissioner, Additional Commissioners were removed in the public interest with immediate effect on completing 50 years of age, the Finance Ministry said in a statement. “All these 15 officers will be paid a sum equivalent to the pay and allowances for a period of three months calculated at the same rate at reach they are supposed to be withdrawing then (Pay & Allowances) immediately before their retirement,” the Ministry statweme4nt added.
The officers are Anup Kumar Srivastava, IRS (C&CE 1984 Batch), presently posted as Principal ADG, Delhi Zonal Unit at DG(Audit), New Delhi; Atul Dikshit, Commissioner, IRS (C&CE 1988 Batch), presently under suspension; Sansar Chand, Commissioner, IRS (C&CE, 1986 Batch), presently posted as Commissioner (AR), CESTAT, Kolkata; Gaddala Sree Harsha, Commissioner, IRS (C&CE:1990 Batch), presently posted as Commissioner, DGPM, Chennai and Vinay Brij Singh, Commissioner, IRS (C&CE:1995 Batch), presently under suspension.