Rupan Dutta the wife of former Chief Income Tax Commissioner Tapas Dutta surrendered before the CBI court in Ranchi in connection with a disproportionate asset and corruption case.
In 2017, Tapas Dutta was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation while accepting a bribe. After Dutta’s arrest, the CBI while investigating the case named his wife Rupan Dutta, businessmen Vishwanath Agarwal and Santosh Kumar Shah as accused involved in
corruption.
The CBI had filed a charge sheet against all four accused in the Ranchi court in February 2022. After this Rupan Dutta filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking anticipatory bail, but the court rejected it in the disproportionate assets case.
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She had also filed a bail petition as soon as she surrendered before the CBI court on Wednesday. The court sent her to the Birsa Munda Central jail in judicial custody on the same day. There is an allegation against the former Chief Income Tax Commissioner that he amassed disproportionate assets of Rs 9.78 crore.
The CBI arrested him on July 13, 2017, for accepting bribes. During CBI raids at various locations, along with 6.6 kg of gold, more than Rs 3 crore were also recovered.
It is alleged that during the financial year 2016-17, five businessmen with the help of a Calcutta-based chartered accountant had laundered black money worth lakhs of rupees through a shell company by transferring it from Kolkata, Hazaribagh, and Ranchi.
Taking huge bribes from these people, their Income Tax file was exempted by Tapas with the help of two ITOs and an Additional Commissioner of Income Tax.
According to the CBI charge sheet, Tapas Dutta and his wife Rupan Dutta, including four people hatched a conspiracy by allowing loans to acquaintances and relatives to legalize the illegally acquired property.
Taking cognizance of the charge sheet, the Special CBI Court Judge Prabhat Kumar Sharma issued summons against the four accused persons to appear in the court and slapped charges against them under IPC 109 and 120B.
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