The divisional Anti Corruption Bureau team led by DSP Pran Ranjan Kumar raided the house of Digambar Singh, Forest Range Officer of Bagodar East situated in Saketpuri colony of Hazaribagh town on Monday noon which concluded after about 8 hours late in the evening.
The ACB has lodged a case of disproportionate asset against Singh after getting complain from a social worker of Sariya (Hazaribagh road) on 14th of June 2016.
In this raid the team members even got surprised when they found properties of crores from the house of Singh who had started his service in the forest Department as a forest guard in 80s.Besides the triple storied house the team found 5 four wheelers including cars like Ford I-Con, 2 two wheelers, ornaments of lakhs, papers of lands in different places of the town and other places, more than 2 dozen bank passbooks and cash of 31.77 lakhs.
On Tuesday ACB team members visited different banks and seized the accounts.
When asked about the details of the case DSP Pran Ranjan said that investigation is still going on.
Ranger Diganmbar Singh was not in his house yesterday and as per a team member he is in Delhi. Now ACB is waiting for his return then further action will be taken.Digambar Singh came to lime light last year when he spent about 1.5 crores in the marriage of his daughter.
Complains against Singh were going to the headquarters since long and as per our sources ex-chief secretary Rajiv Gauba has taken it seriously.
He was posted in Bagodar since the start of his service though he got two promotions during his more than 35 years of service.