Vigilance sleuths conducted simultaneous searches on houses of Ganjam district’s Buguda CHC Medical Officer Dr B Gopal Rao and detected assets worth Rs 1,79,66,626 in his and his family members’ names after he was caught red-handed while taking bribe of Rs 1,500 from a patient on Sunday.
Vigilance officers raided Rao’s official quarter at Buguda, a flat at Nandighosh Enclave in Brahmapur and father-in-law’s house and two buildings at Vizag.
The detected assets include household plot at Vizag of Rs 44,000, flat at Brahmapur of Rs 15,00,000, two buildings at Vizag of Rs 20,30,000, household articles of Rs 6,60,110, insurance premiums of Rs 21,00,000, deposits in various banks of Rs 1,01,50,936, gold ornaments of Rs 2,34,500, silver ornaments of Rs 8,000, a car and a motorcycle worth Rs 7,50,000 and hard cash of Rs 4,89,080. The search was still on by Sunday evening, an official release said.