ACB raids on three officers
Illegal assets worth crores unearthed
Bengaluru, July 18: ACB sleuths conducted raids on the houses and offices of three government officers in the state on Tuesday and unearthed illegal assets disproportionate to their known sources of income worth crores and recovered the documents.
The ACB sleuths raided the office of Handlooms and Textiles department joint director B Vijay Kumar Nirali at Railway Parallel Road and on his house and found that the officer has two houses, four sites including two sites measuring 5 gunta each in Mangaluru and Bengaluru, 276 gram gold, 3700 gram silver, two cars, two bikes, Rs 10.59 cash and household articles worth Rs 20 lakh.
When the ACB raided on the house of Handlooms and Textiles department deputy director Gangaiah, the anti-corruption agency found one house, four sites, 4.36 acre agriculture land, 0.5 acre industrial land, 220 gm gold, 670 gm silver, one car, one bike, Rs 64,000 cash, and household articles worth Rs 15 lakh.
In the same way, the ACB officers also found one house, 6 acres of agriculture land in Koppal taluk, 585 gm gold, 2.5 kg silver, two cars, Rs 2.53 lakh cash and household articles worth Rs 3 lakh were found in the house of Chikmagaluru ACF KN Rangaswamy.
The ACB sleuths conducted raids on the houses and offices of the three officers in eight places simultaneously on July 17. Investigation and verification of documents is going on, sources said.
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Another leopard captured in Belthangadi, second in one month
Belthangadi: A leopard was captured in a cage set up by the forest department near the house of Gurikanda Ananda Shetty in Savanalu village late Friday night, September 20. This marks the second leopard capture in the village within a month.
The area has seen frequent leopard sightings over the past few months, leading to concerns among the residents. After a leopard was caught on September 1, the forest department had safely relocated it. However, another leopard reappeared in the village shortly afterward, preying on a domestic chicken, which led the residents to again request the forest department's intervention.
Responding to the request, forest officials reinstalled the cage last week, and the leopard was trapped around midnight. Villagers, now relieved, informed the forest department, which sent officials to examine the captured animal.
This is the second successful capture by the forest department in Savanalu within the past month.
