In yet another major swoop, the sleuths of the lokayukta police here on Friday morning raided the residence of a time keeper of public works department Guru Kripal Singh alias Pappy Sardar in Tilak Nagar and stumbled upon unaccounted assets worth over Rs12.50 crore disproportionate to his know sources of income.
Following complaints of corruption against him, a team of the lokayukta police comprising DSP GD Sharma, BS Parihar, Daulat Singh, Sl Kataria and Yuvraj Singh raided the residence of Guru Kirpal Singh at 84 Tilak Nagar at 5.45 am on Friday and stumbled upon cash, ornaments, property documents with its value amounting to over Rs12 crore.
Among the assets unearthed by the lokayukta team from Guru Kripal Singh’s residence included bank deposits of Rs35 lakh, bank FDs worth Rs12.28 lakh, lIC policies worth Rs32 lakh, immovable property documents worth Rs10 crore, 14 houses/flats, 11 agriculture lands, a cash of Rs12.44 lakh, three vehicles including an Innova, Tata Safari vehicle, two two-whellers, a bank locker of United Commercial bank, house-hold items worth Rs15 lakh, 20 bottles of foreign liquor, documents of six houses owned by him in Tilak Nagar, Bakhtawar Ram Nagar and Vinoba Nagar localities of the city among others.
Despite having documents of several houses and flats in the city, the accused sometime back had also got allotted a Government quarter from the public works department in Palasia locality, details of which are being investigated.
Guru Kripal Singh also known as a prominent cable operator of the city by the name of Pappu Sardar, had joined public works department 30 years back as a watchman and his current monthly salary is reported to be Rs22,000.
Kripal Singh had been elevated to the position of time keeper in the department only six years back. Talking to mediapersons, the accused said that most of the assets unearthed by the lokayukta police are in the names of his relatives.
lokayukta SP Virendra Singh Virendra Singh talking to this newspaper said that a case under Section 13/1/E has been registered against the
accused under the provisions of the Prevention of the Corruptions Act for owing disproportionate assets.
This is second time in the past two months when lokayukta police raided the residence of a small-time Government employee, unearthing unaccounted assets worth crores of rupees.
last month the special establishment of the lokayukta police had raided the residence of the mandal convener of the tribal welfare department and had unearthed unaccounted assets worth over Rs2 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income.