ACB raids on officers’ houses: Property worth crores found
Bengaluru, July 25: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths raided on the houses of two officers including a joint director of a department on Wednesday and unearthed property disproportionate to their known sources of income worth crores.
The ACB teams raided on the house and offices of Karnataka Udyoga Mitra joint director HM Revanna Gowda and found two houses, two sites, four acres of agriculture land, three industrial sites, 1.5 kg gold, 17.5 kg silver, Rs 12 lakh cash, three cars, three bikes, Rs 4 crore in savings accounts and deposits and household articles worth Rs 26 lakh.
The ACB sleuths also raided the house and offices of Kalaburagi Regional Health and Family Welfare Training Centre’s district health education officer Devindra and found two houses, five sites, 10.37 acres of agriculture land, 222 gm gold, 2.112 kg silver, one car, two bikes, Rs 2 lakh deposit and household articles worth Rs 23.77 lakh.
The ACB sleuths conducted raids on the houses and offices of these two officers in seven places. The ACB officials have continued their investigation, sources said.
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Student killed, several injured as school picnic bus overturns
Nagpur (PTI): A student was killed and several students and teachers were injured as the bus carrying them to a picnic spot overturned near here on Tuesday morning, police said.
The accident took place when students and teachers of Saraswati High School in Shankar Nagar area here were heading for a picnic spot in neighbouring Wardha district in five buses.
One of the buses, with some 50 persons on board, overturned near Deoli Pendhari village on Hingani Road in a hilly section on the outskirts of the city, said an official of Hingna police station.
The deceased boy was a Class 7 student, he said, without disclosing the name. A girl and a teacher sustained severe injuries and were rushed to the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, while others were taken to a nearby rural hospital.
Investigation is underway to determine the cause of the accident, police said.
