Lokayukta Police on Friday raided three premises of a clerk in the Land Records Department in connection with a case of disproportionate assets and unearthed properties worth crores of rupees. The raids were conducted simultaneously at three premises of Sanjay Bhagwani, who works as a clerk in the Land Records Department and his brother-in-law who is a businessman.
According to sources in the Lokayukta Police, Bhagwani has been under the radar of the police since 2016 when Rs 2.5 crore was stolen from his residence situated at Dwarakapuri. At that time Bhagwani had told the police that the stolen amount was only Rs. 2.5 Lakh including the cost of ornaments. Later on the police recovered the entire stolen money amounting to Rs 2.5 crore from the thieves. When they questioned Bhagwani about the source of this money he denied the money belonged to him.
Sanjay Bhagwani had joined the Lands Records Department in 1990 at a monthly salary of Rs 100. The clerk whose present pay scale is Rs 50000 per month has massed assets worth over Rs 3 crore, including two posh houses in Gwalior, an agricultural land worth 1.5 crore and several luxury cars.
Details of his various bank accounts are yet to be ascertained. According to the DSP of Lokayukta Kavindra Chauhan the interior decoration of one of his houses alone cost him Rs 25 Lakhs.
The DSP further said that his brother-in-law is engaged in some minor business activities with the sole purpose of converting the black money into white. Bhagwani’s wife too has a Boutique in Phalika Bazar and it is believed that she too is engaged in the laundering of her husband’s ill earned wealth.
The raiding team consisting of inspectors Parashar, Dharamveer Singh and PK Chaturvedi was led by the Lokayukta DSP Kavindra Chauhan. A case has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and further investigations are on.