The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested In-charge Executive Engineer (EE) Alok Agrawal of State Water Resources Department (WRD) and Contractor Pawan Agrawal in connection with unearthing of disproportionate assets worth several crores of rupees.
“Alok Agrawal and Pawan Agrawal were arrested for their involvement in corruption cases,” Superintendent of Police (SP), (ACB) Rajneesh Singh told The Pioneer. A case against them was registered on January 13 under Section 13(1) E and 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 following raids that led to unearthing of disproportionate property running into several crores of rupees, he said.
Notably, in December last year, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths had carried out a joint operation and raided residences of 6 officials, including a Chief Engineer and Executive Engineers of Chhattisgarh Irrigation Department. Disproportionate assets to the tune of crores of rupees was unearthed during the raid. The raids that were conducted at 16 places across the State had led to the recovery of cash worth Rs6 crore and documents relating to properties.