A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has sentenced a tax official with the vigilance cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to four years' imprisonment for taking a bribe of Rs 3 lakh from an octroi agent.

In the order passed on Wednesday, Special Judge Amit Shete, hearing cases pertaining to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the accused, Sunil Bane.