Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) sleuths have recovered huge cash, jewellery and property documents worth Rs 2.15 crore during raid at suspended SSP Vivek Kumar's in-laws' residence in Uttar Pradesh.
The rich haul of seizure was made from two lockers only out of six lockers keys of which was found from suspended SSP's in-laws residence in Muzaffarnagar in UP.
"A total of six locker keys has been recovered during raid at Vivek Kumar's in-laws residence in Muzaffarnagar.Rs 18 lakh cash and jewellery worth Rs 1.75 lakh found from one locker while team recovered jewellery worth Rs 30 lakh apart from papers of fixed deposits of Rs 1.65 crore from another locker," Inspector General (IG),SVU, Ratan Sanjay told PTI.
Notably, a raid has been going on since Monday last at the residence of former Muzaffarpur Senior Superintendent of Police Vivek Kumar and his native district Saharanpur and his in-laws house at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
The state government yesterday suspended Vivek Kumar after the Special Vigilance Unit's raided his and his in-laws residences in connection with a disproportionate asset case.
Of the fixed deposit of Rs 1.65 crore,IG said Rs 1 crore has been deposited as fixed deposit jointly in the name of Vivek Kumar's wife Nidhi Karnwal, father-in-law Ved Prakash Karnwal and mother-in-law Uma Rani while Rs 27 lakh has been made as fixed deposit in his wife's name Nidhi Karnwal whereas the remaining amount of Rs 38 lakh has been made as fixed deposit in his brother-in-law Nikhil Karnwal's name.
The team is still investigating the other four lockers, he added.
The IG further said that Vivek Kumar's name has been cleared by the Central government for his appointment as OSD to union minister Satyapal Singh and he was set to be relieved by the state goverment soon but the raid played the spoil sport.
During the first of the raid on Monday, the SVU had seized over Rs 5.50 lakh cash, jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh and Rs 45,000 in old currency notes from the residence of the former Muzaffarpur SSP who is an accused in a disproportionate asset case.
Kumar, a 2007 batch IPS officer, has been named in an FIR for amassing three times disproportionate assets to his known sources of income along with his wife and in-laws.
An FIR was lodged against him on April 15 with Special Vigilance Unit police station under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and IPC.
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