Vigilance department on Tuesday registered a case against an engineer of Public Works Department (PWD) for keeping disproportionate assets. The team has seized more than one crore from several bank accounts, property papers, gold and much expensive merchandise. The accused engineer has been identified as Praveen Bahukhandi who was presently posted in Rishikesh.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Vigilance, Krishna Kumar said that they had conducted the raid on Thursday last week after which they were analysing the necessary documents and only after that they have decided to register the case. He further said that they got information about this during an inquiry they were conducting before. As per the officials, a team of Uttarakhand Vigilance conducted a raid at the residence of accused Praveen at his residence at Race Course Valley, near Reserve Police Lines on Thursday.
In addition to that approximately Rs six lakh in cash, 210 grammes in gold, several properties including a flat in Mahalakshmi Apartments worth Rs 90 lakh along with several other accounts in post offices and other banks.