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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Jharkhand horror: Man kills live-in partner, chops body into 40 pieces
Ranchi (PTI): A 25-year-old man, who works as a butcher, allegedly strangled to death his live-in partner and chopped her body into 40 to 50 pieces in a forested area in Jharkhand’s Khunti district, police said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Bhengra, was arrested.
The matter came to light after around a fortnight after the killing when a stray dog was found with human body parts near Jordag village in Jariagarh police station on November 24.
Bhengra was in a live-in relationship with the deceased, a 24-year-old woman also from Khunti district, in Tamil Nadu for the past couple of years. Sometime back, he returned to Jharkhand, got married to another woman without telling his partner anything and went back to the southern state without his wife to join her.
"The brutal incident occurred on November 8 when they reached Khunti as the accused who had married another woman did not wish to take her home. Instead, he took her to a forest near his house at Jordag village in Jariagarh police station and chopped the body into pieces. The man has been arrested," Khunti Superintendent of Police Aman Kumar told PTI.
Inspector Ashok Singh who investigated the case said the man worked in a butcher shop in Tamil Nadu and was expert in slicing chicken.
“He admitted chopping the body parts of the woman into 40 to 50 pieces before leaving those in the forest for wild animals to feast on. The police recovered several parts on November 24 after a dog in the area was seen with a hand," Singh told PTI.
Singh said that the woman, who was unaware of his marriage, pressured him to return to Khunti. After reaching Ranchi, they boarded a train on November 24 and headed to the man's village.
"Under a plan, the man took her to Khunti in an autorickshaw near his home and asked her to wait. He returned with sharp weapons and strangulated her with her dupatta after raping her. He then cut the body into 40 to 50 pieces and left for his home to live with his wife," Singh said.
The woman, however, had informed her mother that she had boarded a train and would be living with her partner, the police officer said.
Following the recovery of body parts, a bag was also found in the forest with the murdered woman's belongings including her Aadhaar card. The mother of the woman was called at the spot and she identified her daughter's belongings.
"The mother suspected the man behind the crime who after being nabbed by the police admitted to chopping the woman into pieces," the official added.
The incident has sent shockwaves among people in the region, with the Shraddha Walker murder case of 2022 still fresh in their memory.
Walker was killed by her live-in partner who chopped her body into pieces before dumping them in the jungle in South Delhi’s Mehrauli.
