Bengaluru, July 18 -- * Mysuru-based businessman bribery case: CBI books senior GST officer

* He had taken Rs. 1 cr. to derail a Rs. 21 cr. input tax credit fraud probe

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a corruption case against a senior officer of Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) for allegedly accepting Rs. 1 crore bribe from a Mysuru-based businessman to derail investigation into an alleged Rs. 21-crore GST input tax credit fraud.

According to reports from Bengaluru, the accused, Praveen Kumar Yadav, then serving as a senior intelligence officer with DGGI, allegedly accepted the bribe from Mohammed Kamran, a scrap materials businessman from Mysuru, on Sept. 11, 2025. Yadav is currently under suspe...