Key I-T officials transferred

The officers have been transferred following 'pressure' from higher ups for their role in exposing a bribery case.

Five top officers of the investigative wing of the Income Tax department, including its director general, have been shunted out of their respective posts following "pressure" from higher ups for their reported role in exposing a bribery case in which liquor manufacturers of Uttar Pradesh allegedly paid over Rs 300 crore to top politicians and bureaucrats.

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DG (investigation) SS Gandhi, credited with detecting several high profile income tax evasion cases, including the Flex Industries where Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh is one of the directors, has been transferred as DG (Systems), considered a punishment posting in the IT circle.

RR Singh has taken charge as the new DG (investigation) in the IT department's Jhandewala office in the capital.

PK Kedia, a director, has been removed from his post and sent to the appeals section of the department, a toothless wing.

Additional director P S Tomar has been shunted out of Delhi and transferred to Meerut.

Assistant Director SK Gotru, who sent notices to the wife of a leading UP politician for a suspected case of tax evasion in March, has been transferred to Madhya Pradesh

Two new officers have already joined as Directors (investigation). S Joshi, who was earlier in Maharashtra, has taken over the charge of the Director (inv) II while Akilesh Prasad has last week taken over the charge of Director(inv) I.

Kedia has completed less than a year in the investigative wing of the IT department before being transferred.