Jammu and Kashmir State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) today conducted simultaneous raids at two residences of a government official accused of accumulating disproportionate assets by abusing his official position.
The searches were conducted at Anantnag in south Kashmir and winter capital Jammu at the residences of Executive Officer Municipal Committee Achabal Bashir Ahmed Ganaie after obtaining the search warrants from the court of Additional Special Judge Anti corruption Court in Anantnag, a spokesman of the SVO said.
"During the searches, various important documents were seized having bearing with the investigation of the case. The documents are being scrutinized," the spokesman said.
He said the searches were carried out after a "verification" into allegations of accumulating disproportionate assets by the official showed that Ganaie accumulated movable and immovable assets through "corrupt practices" at Anantnag and Jammu.
"The official has constructed a residential house at Machbawan on Khannabal-Pahalgam road worth about Rs 1.30 crore and has also purchased a residential house at Channi Rammu in Jammu worth about Rs 45 lakhs and land measuring nearly half-an-acre at Chetipaibugh-Mattan," the spokesman said.
"The official has also raised other movable assets in the shape of bank deposits and is known to be living a luxurious life beyond his means," the spokesman said.
"A case is accordingly registered in Police Station Vigilance of Kashmir and further investigation taken up," the spokesman said.
