{"id":2696,"date":"2013-07-26T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2013-07-26T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T10:14:14","slug":"cbi-press-release-and-statement-of-itat-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/cbi-press-release-and-statement-of-itat-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI Press Release And Statement Of ITAT Vice President In Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/G_E_Veerabhadrappa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued a press release regarding a case registered against Shri. G. E. Veerabhadrappa, Vice-President of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai u\/s13(2) r\/w 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 for alleged possession of unaccounted assets to the tune of Rs 3.92 crores. In response, Shri. G. E. Veerabhadrappa has issued a brief statement. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Press Release By The CBI:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>CBI REGISTERS A CASE AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT OF INCOME TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL FOR POSSESSION OF ALLEGED DISPROPORTIONATE ASSETS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press Release<br \/>\nNew Delhi 25.07.2013<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation  has registered a case on 22.07.2013 against Vice-President, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai U\/s.13(2) r\/w 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act-1988 for possession of alleged assets to the tune of Rs.3.92 crores (approx) which was disproportionate to his known sources of income.<\/p>\n<p>After registration of the case searches were conducted at two places in Bangalore and Mumbai. Incriminating documents recovered during the searches are being scrutinized.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Statement Of Shri. G. E. Veerabhadrappa<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My name was cleared by Selection Committee in 2005 for the post of Vice-President in 2005 based on the Vigilance clearance on records.  <\/p>\n<p>My name was also considered for the post of Sr. Vice-President along with Sri Easwar obviously on the basis of clearance in 2009.  Sri Eawar was selected being senior to me.  I was not rejected on any Vigilance pending against me in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/index.php\/honble-president-itat-appointed-judge-delhi-high-court\/\">Sri Easwar was elevated<\/a>, I was promoted as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/index.php\/honble-shri-g-e-veerabhadrappa-appointed-president-of-itat\/\">officiating President<\/a> on 14.11.2011.  Subsequently, it was put up for approval of the ACC alongwith Vigilance clearance which was approved by ACC meaning that I was cleared from Vigilance angle also in 2011.  Between 2011 to 2013, I have not acquired any asset which is not explained.  How come all my property existing is disproportionate to all known sources of income.<\/p>\n<p>(G.E.Veerabhadrappa)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued a press release regarding a case registered against Shri. G. E. Veerabhadrappa, Vice-President of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai u\/s13(2) r\/w 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 for alleged possession of unaccounted assets to the tune of Rs 3.92 crores. In response, Shri. G. E. Veerabhadrappa has issued a brief statement<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/cbi-press-release-and-statement-of-itat-vice-president\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-information","category-itat-related"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}