ACB raids: Cash, documents worth crores seized
Bengaluru, October 05: Following complaints from people against two government officials on amassing illegal assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths conducted raids on the house and offices of those two government officers in eight places simultaneously and recovered cash and documents of properties worth crores, on Friday.
On Friday morning, the ACB sleuths conducted raids on the houses and offices of Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) chief development officer T.R. Swamy and Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) engineer N.S. Gowdaiah.
The ACB officials conducted raids on the Greens apartment at Malleshwara, houses of two relatives and KIADB office of T.R. Swamy. House of N.G. Gowdaiah, relatives houses, another house in Gubbi in Tumkur district and BDA office and recovered cash and records worth crores from them.
ACB officials shocked
More than 20 ACB officials raided on the houses and office of T.R. Swamy and found more than Rs 4.5 crore cash with the denomination of 2,000, 500 and 200. Apart from this, important records worth crores, three luxury cars including Rs 30 lakh worth car. The officials also found heaps of records and files at a parked Omni car in at Mantri Mall Green Apartment basement and the ACB officials suspected that he might have hid the records of illegal activities.
T.R. Swamy lives in 1405 number apartment, while his sister lives in 1504 number apartment. As the ACB officials found cash worth crores, they brought three currency counting machines to count the currency notes found in those apartments.
IGP visits
ACB IGP Chandrashekar visited the house of T.R. Swamy where ACB officials conducted raids and found cash and records worth crores. He said that the ACB is verifying on the allegation that Swamy had thrown a bag from his house during ACB raid.
Booty at Gowdaiah’s house
In the name of family members of Gowdaiah, he has two houses, 8 sites, 14 apartments, 3 kg gold, 10 kg silver, three cars, three bikes, Rs 75 lakh cash and Rs 30 lakh deposits in various banks. Apart from this, 4.5 kg gold ornaments found in the house of his father-in-law, said ACB official sources.
Heaps of currency notes?
In the name of T.R. Swamy’s family members and relatives, he has 8 houses, 10 sites, 10 acre of agriculture land, 1.6 kg gold, three cars, and Rs 4.52 crore cash was found during the raid.
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Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh
Pratapgarh (UP) (PTI): Four people were booked here for the abduction and assault of a man who they allegedly tied to a tree and beat up, police said on Wednesday.
The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on Tuesday afternoon under the Kunda police station limits.
The FIR was registered on Wednesday evening based on a complaint from the victim's father.
According to Keshav Prasad Yadav, a resident of Mauli village, some people called his 18-year-old son Nikhil Yadav on the phone and asked him to come out of his house around 2.30 pm on Tuesday.
As he reached outside the village as instructed, the accused allegedly forced him into a car and took him towards the Tinpedwa forest area, where they tied him to a tree and assaulted, the complainant said.
The attackers also recorded a video of the incident and circulated it on social media. The purported video shows the men thrashing Nikhil one after another, while one of them is assumed to have recorded the act.
Kunda Station House Officer Manoj Pandey confirmed the incident and said efforts are underway to identify and arrest all the accused.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has shared the video on social media, describing the incident as reflective of a "dominant mindset" against the PDA (Pichda or Backward, Dalit, and Alpasankhyak or Minority), and demanded strict action against the accused.
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