mumbaivishakhapatnam the cbi arrested a senior mumbaibased income tax official and five others including the vicechairman of a leading corporate in an alleged rs 2crore bribery case on tuesday night the income tax commissioner appeals bb rajendra prasad had allegedly accepted the amount to pass a favourable order on an appeal filed by a trust under the essar group the cbis anticorruption bureau said it had already recovered the bribe amount of approximately rs 170 crore an essar spokesperson denied the allegations made by the cbiprasad a 1992 batch indian revenue service officer who is currently in charge of appeals in mumbai was arrested from his house in visakhapatnam while he was on leave he was to attend the marriage of a close family member on may 13 sources said he was posted in chennai and transferred to mumbai a year agoapart from prasad essar power vicechairman pradeep mittal was arrested in mumbai along with an accountant for the group vipin bajpai others arrested from mumbai are chartered accountant shreyas parikh a partner in gk choksi which handles the affairs of balaji trust in which essar investments is a trustee and manish jain of maa ambe jewellers who allegedly took delivery of the bribe money from parikhs officecbi in its fir has alleged that balaji trust through its ca had agreed to pay the bribe to prasad it said mittal was monitoring the matter and was in touch with parikh and another partner of the ca firm gautam choksi the investigating agency said on april 21 prasad had passed a favourable order for the trust highlighting the manner in which the money changed hands the cbi said prasad got in touch with choksi through an associate visakhapatnambased suresh jain who is in the bullion and real estate business jain is alleged to have enquired with choksi about the delivery of the agreed payment cbi alleged that choksi in turn promised to deliver the money in instalments in mumbai and if required in hyderabad tooon april 27 mittal then directed bajpai to deliver the first instalment to the ca cbi said parikh then asked jain to depute a person to collect the money this is when jain contacted his relative manish who had his office at zaveri bazaar manish visited parikhs office and collected the money the cbi alleged that on april 28 parikh once again contacted jain and requested him to take the next instalment manish then visited bajpai and collected the instalment it saidit said on monday prasad contacted jain and asked him to hand over part of the amount he had received on his behalf a source told cbi that the amount was likely to be delivered to prasad on tuesday at his visakhapatnam residence on tuesday cbi laid a trap and caught prasad who had received rs1934 lakh from jain both prasad and jain were arrested the agency said the remaining rs 150 crore received by jain was also recovered prasad and jain were produced