Patna: Alert investigation bureau on Tuesday arrested the Bettiah Circle (CO) officer Shyakant Prasad while allegedly accepting RS2.5 lakh as a bribe at his residence in Kamalnath Nagar from Bettiah against against.
Superanutation of Prasad is due after six months.
Then, Dehuth the bureau did a thorough search from his house, which produced gold jewelry with a weight of at least 938gm and 3.2kg silver ornaments worth more than RS50.1 lakh in addition to RS10.5 lakh cash.
Seven land actions in the West and East Champaran, Passbook six bank accounts, bank lockers and documents that show investment in 16 life insurance policies also recover.
The bureau has started the process to make a bank account frozen.
The action was taken on complaints submitted by One Vijay Kumar Gupta of Lauria against Prasad because of giving bribes.
The accusation was found correctly and the bureau filed FIR against Prasad on Monday.
The trap team was led by DSP Arun Paswan while the search team was led by DSP Surendra Kumar Maular.
According to the source of the bureau, CO fails to provide satisfactory reply or produce documents to prove the legitimacy of cash recovering from his residence.
The source said Gupta had four land Kattha in Lauria since 1987, but one Shakeela Khatoon recently claimed its ownership of the plot.
“He approached CO and submitted a request that the mutation and tax revenue must be in his name.
Gupta gets some small construction work on the ground about a month when the woman reaches there with the police and stops,” said a senior bureau officer.
He said CO issued orders that prohibit work on the land.
“After this, Gupta approached the Prasad showed ownership of his land.
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then asked the Gupta to pay for RS2.5 Lakh as a bribe to resolve his favorable dispute,” he said.
The source said when the Bureau detective asked his wife to submit the locker keys in his name at the Bank of Baroda, he made the reason that it had been moved.
“Later, they get a sealed locker,” he said.
Sources say the Bureau will start an inquiry of assets that are disproportionate to co.
They say if the properties of prasad moving and non-moving are found disproportionate, separate FIR will be registered against it.
Bettiah CO was held to take RS2.5 lakh Sus
