The Anti-Corruption Wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office in Dhanbad conducted search at two residential and office premises of a Superintendent Engineer (E&T) of Bharat Coking Coal limited here on Saturday.
In an ongoing probe relating to disproportionate assets (DA) case against Srinarayan Singh the Superintendent Engineer (E&T) of the lodna Area of BCCl, (Dhanbad) the CBI sleuths conducted search operations at Dhanband in Jharkhand and Motihari, Muzaffarpur in Bihar, said PK Manjhi Superintendent of Police CBI Dhanbad.
A case was earlier registered against Srinarayan U/s 13(2) r/w 13(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 alleging therein that the accused public servant, during the check period between 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2015, had amassed huge movable and immovable assets an estimated worth of `2 crore which were disproportionate to his known sources of income, said Manjhi.
During searches various incriminating documents including 26 Bank accounts in the name of Srinarayan and his family members were sized, he said adding, “A Bank locker with Punjab and Sindh Bank along with various sale deeds related to acquisition of immovable properties and cash of `1 lakhs was recovered”.
Search operations which were started in the morning, continued till evening (report writing) at different locations. Further investigations are on and we are scrutinising the 3 documents, said SP.