lokayukta police personnel in an early morning swoop on Tuesday carried out simultaneous raids at the residences of an assistant excise commissioner in Indore and Sagar and stumbled upon unaccounted assets worth crores of rupees.
In Indore, a team of lokayukta police led by SP Virendra Singh raided Flat No 201, at Saffire Avenue on MG Road, belonging to assistant excise commissioner Jagdish Rathi. In course of the raid the lokayukta police personnel comprising DSP GD Sharma and BS Parihar stumbled upon documents relating to unaccounted movable and immovable property worth about Rs 5 crore amassed by Rathi through unscrupulous means.
Among the movable and immovable assets recovered by the lokayukta police are `14 lakh cash, gold and silver jewellery worth about `36.19 lakh, documents showing fixed deposits of `4.20 lakh, besides 10 bank accounts and a locker of the ICICI bank containing `31.57 lakh. The ICICI bank locker of Rathi was in the name of his wife.
Besides, the lokayukta police came across documents relating to other immovable property owned by Rathi in Indore. The lokayukta SP said the documents seized from the residence of Rathi in Indore showed that the accused owned five shops in posh Indraprasth Tower, a commercial building located on the busy MG Road, over 15 plots in nearby Rau. He also owns three plots in Dravid Nagar, Mahalaxmi Nagar and Model Town on Kesharbagh Road and a house in Gumasta Nagar in Indore and an ancestral residential property in Chota Sarafa locality of the city.
Scrutiny of the documents seized from the residence of Rathi was on till the time of filing this report.
Another team of lokayukta police, Indore raided the residence of Rathi in Poddar Colony at Sagar, the details of which are awaited.
A native of Indore, Rathi had joined the Excise department in 1986. He had been promoted as assistant excise commissioner in May this year and was currently posted at Sagar.
According to sources, it is the second time that Rathi’s residence has been raided. Earlier, his residence had been raided during his posting in Raipur in 1987, sources said.
Meanwhile the lokayukta police have filed a case against Rathi under the Prevention of Corruption Act.