Disproportionate assets to the tune of around Rs 5 crore were unearthed from the house of an Assistant Engineer (AE) of Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company limited (CSPDCl) Ajay Kumar Gupta, during a raid conducted by sleuths of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) here on Tuesday.
The raid was concurrently conducted in Shankar Nagar based house of the Assistant Engineer and a farm house owned by him located in Prida village in the outskirts of the city.
Detailing about the assets recovered, ACB sources informed that Gupta owns a house in posh Ashoka Ratna colony, a flat in Saddu locality, a house in DD Nagar, a house in Durg besides a farm house and land in two posh locations of Raipur city.
Cash amounting to Rs 52,000, a four wheeler and motorcycles and were also found during the raid. The ACB sleuths have also seized documents carrying information about movable and immovable properties purchased in the names of relatives and close friends. An offence in this connection was registered against the accused under Sections 13 (1) and 13 (2) of Prevention of Corruption Act-1988, the ACB source said.