Raipur

Gold, cash recovered from housing board deputy commissioner's locker

Staff Reporter

The officers of Anti Corruption Bureau  (ACB) on Tuesday opened the locker of Chhattisgarh Housing Board Deputy Commissioner DK Diwan at Bhilai branch of Canara Bank and recovered jewellery and cash from it on Tuesday.

The officers however were not been able to complete the assessment of the valuables recovered from the locker and sealed the material for further investigation.

“We have recovered jewellery and other material from the locker of DK Diwan but the assessment of the valuables could not be completed,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police (ACB) DS Negi. Negi said that the recovered jewellery will be weighed and thereafter the assessment will be completed.

The ACB sleuths had earlier unearthed assets to the tune of `10 crores found disproportionate of his known sources of income. 

Diwan posted as Deputy Commissioner at the headquarter of Chhattisgarh Housing Baord had joined as Assistant Engineer in the year 1990 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. later, he was posted in Jagdalpur, Sagar, Bhilai, Raipur and Bilaspur. In year 2000 he was promoted as Executive Engineer and as Deputy Commissioner in 2012.