The Madhya Pradesh lokayukta’s special police establishment on Saturday conducted raids on the premises of the managers of two cooperative societies in Raisen district on the charges of amassing property disproportionate to their known sources of income.
lokayukta Superintendent of Police VN Singh said that the raids were conducted simultaneously at Sunbaha Cooperative Society manager Ramkishan Vishwakarma’s residence at Begamganj and Seva Society manager Vinod Yadav’s residence at Obaidullaganj. The raids began at around 6 am and continued till 4 pm.
The action was taken after receiving complaints of amassing property disproportionate to their known sources of income. From Vishwakarma assets worth Rs2 crore and one kg of gold have been found and from Vinod assets worth Rs1.25 crore were found, he added.
From Vishwakarma one Pokeland machine, two cars, a house, 500 gm gold and one kg gold ornaments were recovered in the raids. During the raids on Yadav five bank accounts, one bank locker, papers of seven acres of land, three cars, two mini trucks, two motorbikes, documents of three houses, Rs25,000 cash, gold and silver jewellery were recovered.
Both the accused have served for around 20 years and at present their salary is Rs5000 per month which shows a huge gap between the assets and known income sources.
Massive accumulation of wealth was found during the raids. A house of Vishwakarma, which has around 30-40 tenants, is estimated to be worth around Rs1.75 crore. Meanwhile, Vinod’s house is estimated to be worth around Rs1.25 crore.