In an early morning swoop, sleuths of Jabalpur lokayukta police raided the residence of the REC department’s executive engineer in the posh Vijay Nagar locality and unearthed unaccounted assets worth crores, disproportionate to his known sources of income.
According to initial estimate, the assets unearthed at the residence of REC executive engineer Syyed Shaukat Ali in Scheme No. 54 (Vijay Nagar) have been put at approximately Rs15- Rs20 crore.
According to report, a team of lokayukta police, led by SP Padamvilochan Shukla stormed the residence of Ali in Scheme No. 54 at 6 am here on Monday. At the time of raid, the family members were asleep and were taken aback seeing the lokayukta sleuths knocking their door.
During the course of search operations, the sleuths of lokayukta police stumbled upon incriminating property documents and other valuables and its prices may run into crores once scrutiny of all the related documents are completed, informed the lokayukta sources talking to this newspaper.
Among the movable and immovable assets unearthed by the lokayukta police include three luxury cars including Hundai Verna, Cruize and Chevrolet, a residential plot owned by Ali in Tulsi Nagar worth Rs60 lakh, a luxurious bungalow in Vijay Nagar, cash and jewelleries worth lakhs of rupees, credit and debit cards, passbook of 15 banks including that of State Bank of India, Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Bank of Maharashtra respectively.
On Monday evening, the lokayukta Jabalpur SP Satish Mishra opened two lockers of Ali in Canara Bank, Vijay Nagar. While one locker was empty, the lokayukta police recovered gold and silver ornaments from the second locker worth Rs4.50 lakh.
Besides, Indore, the lokayukta police also raided residential premises of Ali in Chhindwara and Balaghat where he is currently posted as an executive engineer in rural engineering department and unearthed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. In Chhindwara, the lokayukta sleuths have discovered an engineering college run by Ali. The cost of engineering college has been estimated at Rs15 crore. While in Balaghat, the lokayukta police recovered a cash of Rs70,000 from the official residence of Ali.
Among the lokayukta officials who were part of the raiding team included Jabalpur lokayukta DSP Satish Mishra, inspector Prabhat Shukla, Indore lokayukta DSP G D Sharma and inspector Anil Chouhan respectively.
Sources informed that lokayukta Bhopal PV Navlekar following complaints of corruption against REC department executive engineer had directed lokayukta Jabalpur for taking necessary steps in this regard. It was only after ruling of Balaghat court against Ali that Jabalpur lokayukta police registered the case against Ali and raided residence of Ali in Indore on Monday morning.
Shukla informed that prior to Chhindwara and Balaghat, Ali had also been posted at Barwani and Dhar districts. We are trying to find details about his stint at these places, Shukla informed.
REC executive engineer, whose retirement is due next year, has one son and a daughter. After completing MBBS, Ali’s son is doing Master of Surgery form United States, while his daughter is pursuing MBBS degree from Arubindo Medical College, Indore.