New Delhi, A case has been registered by the CBI on wednesday against nine senior Income Tax officials, including Principal Commissioner (I-T, Delhi) SK Mittal, for indulging in corrupt practices as it raided 17 locations across the country.

As per the CBI sources, residential and official premises of the officials and chartered accountant Sanjay Bhandari were today searched during the country-wide operations.

The sources claimed that CBI recovered documents related to properties worth Rs 2.6 crore, cash of Rs 16 lakh, 4.25 kg of gold jewellery besides 13 kg of silver articles during searches at the premises of one of the officials.

They said fixed deposit receipts worth Rs 68 lakh were recovered from another official.

Underlining that these were initial recoveries, they said the searches were still going on and that more recoveries could be made.

According to sources, the case has been registered by agency against Income Additional Commissioner (Exemption) Bangalore, TN Prakash; Deputy Commissioner (Exemption) Chennai, RV Haroon Prasad; Deputy Commissioner (Investigation) Chennai, S Murali Mohan; Commissioner (audit-2) Chennai, Vijayalakshmi; Additional Commissioner Mumbai, S Pandian; Commissioner (DR) ITAT Mumbai, G Lakshmi Baraprasad; Additional Director General (systems-4) Ghaziabad, Vikram Gaur; and Additional Director (investigation) Mumbai, Rajendra Kumar.

The present case stemmed from another case registered by the agency in 2015, in which CA Sanjay Bhandari was named along with Joint Commissioner Sallong Yaden who was arrested for allegedly receiving the bribe from Shreyans Bhandari of SH Bhandari and Co, Chartered Accountants.

Acording to CBI, Yaden had demanded and accepted the bribe for giving a favourable report on the Income Tax search conducted on a city-based private company.