The Central Bureau of Investigation confiscated cash over Rs 14 lakh when it raided the house of an Income Tax official at Basti in Uttar Pradesh.
The official was caught accepting a bribe from a proprietor of a trading firm.
Besides the cash, the anti-corruption wing of the agency also seized several bank accounts from the residence of Om Praksh Vimal.
There was over Rs 7.5 lakh in the accounts, the CBI said in a statement.
Jewellery and household articles worth over Rs 2.4 crore were also seized from his house, it added.
The CBI sleuths had caught Vimal while he was taking Rs 50,000 as bribe from the owner of trading firm M/s Kashyap Trading Company for accepting the IT return of his firm for the financial year 2003-04 and 2004-05.
