New Delhi: The Central government has dismissed 12 senior income tax officers on charges of corruption and professional misconduct, sources said.

The list is topped by a joint commissioner rank officer against whom there are serious complaints of corruption and extortion from businessmen accused of helping self-styled godman Chandraswami.

The list also includes an IRS officer in the post of commissioner (Appeal) in Noida, who was accused of sexual harassment by two women IRS officers of commissioner rank.

Another IRS officer who was compulsorily retired had acquired movable and immovable assets worth over Rs 3.17 crore in the name of self and his family members. These movable and immovable properties had allegedly been acquired by abusing his official position and by corrupt and illegal means.

An Income Tax commissioner, who had a disproportionate assets case registered against him by the anti-corruption branch of the CBI and was suspended from service in October 2009 pending criminal prosecution was also compulsorily retired by the government.

Another officer involved in cases of corruption and extortion and who had passed many wrongs and malafide assessment orders which were later reversed by the appellate authorities too was dismissed from service.

An officer who amassed disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 1.55 crore, which is 133.71% of his known sources of income and used hawala channels for transferring the ill-gotten money too was compulsorily retired.

Another officer of the commissioner rank, accused of demanding Rs 50 lakh bribe for providing relief to a businessman in a shell company matter, and abusing his official position as a public servant to acquire immovable/movable assets from his ill-gotten money amounting to Rs 3.13 crore was also compulsorily retired.