3 days ago
Lokayukta raids govt officials, unearths assets worth crores
Dharwad: Lokayukta police raided the house, office, and govt quarters of the PWD (north circle) chief engineer H Suresh in Dharwad and Hanuman Nagar in Belagavi Saturday morning and unearthed disproportionate assets amounting to 153.5%.
The raid was held simultaneously at seven locations, including his house, farmhouse and office.
Dharwad Lokayukta SP Hanumantharaya said the officer owns two housing plots valued at Rs 13.4 lakh, six commercial complexes valued at Rs 50.5 lakh, two houses (Rs 2.6 crore), 11.3 acres of agricultural land valued at Rs 35.4 lakh, Rs 76,000 in cash, fixed deposits of Rs 1.7 crore in various banks, gold ornaments weighing 245 grams (Rs 21 lakh), 2,499g silver (Rs 2.3 lakh), two luxury cars (Rs 26 lakh), furnitures worth Rs 25 lakh-taking the total value of assets to Rs 3.3 crore which is 153.54% disproportionate to his known income source.
The raid was conducted by the Lokayukta police team led by SP CH Hanumantharaya.
The Lokayukta sleuths also raided several premises of Gangadhar Veerayya Shirol, project director, Nirmithi Kendra, Gadag and unearthed disproportionate assets worth Rs 3.5 crore which is186.9% of his known sources of income. Lokayukta SP Hanumantharaya said the team recovered documents pertaining to four sites valued at Rs 25.5 lakh, seven houses (two own, five benami) worth Rs 2.3 crore, 3 acres and 29 guntas of agricultural land worth Rs 13 lakh, 307g of gold worth Rs 23.8 lakh, 3717g of silver worth Rs 3.7 lakh, one Innova car and two two-wheelers valued at Rs 12.3 lakh.
Shirol also owns furniture worth Rs 5 cash seized during the raid and the bank deposits amounted to Rs 21.5 lakh, the SP informed.
