Four govt officials under anti-corruption scanner

Jaipur, Aug 10 (UNI) The Anti-Corruption Bureau raided the residence of four state government officials today and recovered lakhs of rupees.

Bureau's Deputy Inspector General, Umesh Mishra, told UNI that raids were conducted at the houses of a forest department official, one roadways official, a reader of police and a superintendent engineer of a power project.

The officials managed to sieze lakhs of rupees in cash and land documents in large numbers. Cases have been lodged against these corrupt officials.

Mr Mishra said Additional Chief Forest Conservator of Banas project Amrish Chand Chaube was found to have three houses in Jaipur, one house in Noida and three lakh rupees in the bank and major investments in Indore and Assam.

The house of a close friend of Mr Chaube was also raided. The search revealed one briefcase with gold necklace and Rs seven lakh in cash from a bedroom.

Mr Mishra said roadways official Bhanwar Lal of Ajmer has a 17 bigha farm house in Pushkar, a house in Kishangarh, another in Bhilwara and two houses in Ajmer.

Additional police superintendent (rural) Jagdev Singh was found to have nine plots.

Superintending engineer Parmanand Jasuja of Giral Lignite Thermal power project was found to have 10 passbooks of a bank which had lakhs of rupees. Apart from houses in Bikaner and Ganganagar, which were searched, he own a house in Delhi.

Mr Mishra said the raids are continuing.

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