Various teams of Bihar’s Economic Offence Wing (EOW) conducted simultaneous raids at various places of the State and seized movable and immovable properties worth crores of rupees from three Government officers on Thursday.
Additional Director General of Police (law and Order) SK Bhardwaj said that properties worth over Rs 7.44 crore were seized from the residence of a retired Enforcement Inspector Ramesh Pathak at Patel Nagar in Patna.
Besides possessing a palatial two-storey house worth Rs 2 crore in Patna, Pathak is the owner of a huge plot of land worth Rs 2 crore at Mainpura in Patna, He also owns a flat worth Rs 1.50 crore at Dwarka, Sector 12 in New Delhi,
In addition to immovable properties purchased in the name of his wife and sons, Pathak spent a very huge amount in purchasing ornaments and luxurious cars.
In another major haul, movable and immovable properties worth more than Rs 4.52 crore were recovered from the premises of Executive Engineer of Building Construction Department Ramchandra Sharma. Raids were conducted at his Patna-based residence, office and his ancestral home at Dhandhar Bigha in Jehanabad district.
Besides owning a three-storey house worth Rs 3 crore at Rukunpura in Patna, Sharma possesses movable properties — including a luxurious car, ornaments, bank deposits and domestic equipments — valued at Rs 70.60 lakh. He is also the owner of a huge plot worth Rs 30 lakh in Patna besides possessing an agricultural land worth Rs 15 lakh in Jehanabad district. Sharma has another huge plot of land worth nearly Rs 19 lakh at Bikram in Patna district.
EOW sleuths also conducted raids at various premises of Executive Engineer, Building Construction Department, Muzaffarpur, Awadhesh Kumar Mandal and seized his movable and immovable properties worth over Rs 3 crore. Raids were conducted at Mandal’s residence in Patna and also at his office and official residence in Muzaffarpur. Besides owning immovable properties in names of his wife and daughter, Mandal also owns ornaments worth Rs 1 crore and a bank balance worth nearly Rs 71 lakh.