Karnataka Lokayukta raids 15 govt officers over charges of disproportionate assets

Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)

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s part of the series of raids conducted on government officials,Lokayukta officials on Wednesday confiscated movable and immovable properties total worth of Rs.5.6 crores from H.J.Ramesh,chief engineer, BESCOM from four locations belonging to him.

According to the official release,the search operations are on and under Disproportionate case booked against him .

The seized properties includes a plot at Hitech Defence & Aerospace Park Industrial Area,Devanahalli,0.75 Acre of plot at Sompura 2nd stage,Dabaspete,an under Construction House at BEML LAYOUT Basaveshwaranagara.

Apart from this a two-wheeler and a four-wheeler,gold and silver articles,Shares,Whisky bottles and household Articles value about Rs.1.4 Crores.

Similarly,another team of officials raided properties at 10 locations belonging to TV Narayanappa,Deputy Director of Factories at Ramanagara and recovered movable and immovable properties worth Rs.2.5 crore .

The confiscated properties includes a site at Hejjala in Judicial layout,three houses in Vijayanagar and KR Puram and 10 acres agricultural land at Mulabagalu in Kolar district.

The other properties includes,two motor cycles,gold ornaments,silver articles and house hold articles,cash Rs.17,000.

The other officials who have been raided includes,
SD Rangaswamy,secretary,Kittaganahalli,gram panchayath,Bengaluru district.

Pramod Kumar NG,Executive engineer,BBMP,South division,Bommanahalli zone,N Muthu,Chief Accounts officer,Mysore Urban Development Authority,Mysuru
J Mahesh,Superintendent Engineer,Mysuru City Corporation,A Nagesh,Assistant Engineer,Mysore Urban Development Authority,MS Shivashankara Murthy, Senior Sub Registrar,Nanjanagudu,Shankara Naik, Junior engineer,RDPR,Shikaripura,Shivamogga district .

K Prashanth,Senior Engineer,Karnataka Neeravari nigama,Uppar Tunga project,Shivamogga
BR Kumar,Labour officer,Manipal Udupi
AM Niranjan,Senior Geologist,Vikas Soudha,Bengaluru
Vagish Basavananda Shettar,Project Engineer,Nirmithi Kendra,Haveir Sub Division Ranebennur.

Jaranappa M Chincholikar,Executive Engineer, KRIDL, Koppal CN Murthy Executive Engineer,KIADB,Mysuru.
The value of the disproportionate assets of the above officials will be calculated after the completion of search operations,an official release,said .