Teams of the lokayukta police, Indore, in simultaneous raids at three places of Maheshwar janpad panchayat Rsbabu' Babulal Patel have unearthed assets worth over Rs 3 cr disproportionate to his known sources of income. The raids were carried out following complaints of corruption and disproportionate assets amassed by Patel through unscrupulous means.
On Tuesday morning, three teams of the lokyaukta police comprising SP Virendra Singh, DSP GD Sharma, Daulat Singh, Sl Kataria and Jitendra Singh Pal carried out simultaneous raids at the residence of Patel at Maheshwar, Indore and his ancestral place at Machalpur and unearthed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
According to preliminary inquiry, the value of total assets unearthed by the lokayukta police till filing this report had been estimated at over Rs 3 cr and it may go higher after complete scrutiny of documents seized from the residence of Patel who had been posted at Maheshwar janpad panchayat on the post of Assistant Grade II in 1998.
According to lokayukta SP, an initial scrutiny of documents seized from the residences of Patel has revealed that Patel owns five houses and four flats, among others. Besides, the lokyayukta police have also stumbled upon documents related to purchase of lands by Patel, according to which Patel had purchased 40 acres of at Maatmur, Kharari, Banjari, Dakhnipura and Bagdara villages of Khargone district.
Patel owns five houses and four flats. As per documents seized from the residences of the accused, Patel owns one double-storey and two single-storey buildings at Maheshwar, one house at Machalkhurd and a dairy farm with over 50 buffaloes, one flat at Anant Kripa apartment in Ranibagh, Indore, three plots at Ayushi farm at Kailod Kartal, Indore, a marble sanitary showroom on Maheshwar-Dhamnod road.
In addition to this, the lokayukta police also found one Scorpio vehicle, one Alto car and three motorcycles from the residences of Patel, as well as gold ornaments worth 300 grams, silver ornaments worth 1 kg, 20 bank accounts in the names of Patel's relatives, cash of Rs 15 lakh in various bank accounts owned by Patel, documents of insurance police with a premium value of Rs 4.5 lakh. Total value of assets unearthed by the lokayukta police had been estimated at Rs 3.10 crore till filing this report.
The lokayukta SP informed that Patel had transferred most of his property in the name of his wife.