CBI conducts searches in Bihar and Jharkhand in ₹100-crore fake GST claim case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday (June 21, 2025) conducted searches in Bihar and Jharkhand in a case registered against the then Additional Commissioner, Customs, Patna, and 29 others over bogus GST claims through fake export bills of nearly ₹100 crore.

In a press statement, the agency said searches were conducted at seven places in Bihar and Jharkhand, including Patna, Purnia, Jamshedpur, Nalanda and Munger. The searches led to the recovery of seven gold bars, each weighing 100 gram, incriminating documents and mobile phones. It is alleged in the FIR that senior officials of the Customs department, including then Additional Commissioner and four Superintendents, entered into a criminal conspiracy with the accused.

‘Loss to exchequer’

The CBI statement said: “A G-card holder/private individual, exporter firms, 23 importer firms and unknown others, with the dishonest intention to allow/show fake export of tiles and automobile parts from LCS, Bhimnagar, Jaynagar and Bhittamore, either to get the refund or claim tax refund from jurisdictional GST Office, induced the aforesaid public servants to perform improperly a public duty with promises to give an undue advantage directly or through a third party in order to show undue advantage to these private parties/exporters and corresponding wrongful loss to the government exchequer.”

According to the CBI, the accused include Ranvijay Kumar, the then Additional Commissioner, Customs, Patna; Tarun Kumar Sinha, the then Superintendent, Customs, LCS Bhimnagar; Rajeev Ranjan Sinha, the then Superintendent, Customs, LCS Bhimnagar; Neeraj Kumar, the then Superintendent, Customs, LCS Jaynagar (now Assistant Commissioner, Customs); Manmohan Sharma, the then Superintendent, Customs, LCS Jaynagar (now Assistant Commissioner, Customs); and Ganga Singh, G-Card Holder/private person.