Mounesh Vishwakarma
Daijiworld Media Network - Bantwal (SP)

Bantwal, Dec 21: In an early morning swoop on Saturday December 20 on the houses of Arun Prakash D'Souza, a junior engineer working for the public works department's (PWD) sub-division here, Lokayukta police recovered illegally amassed assets worth Rs 1.20 crore.

The raids were simultaneously carried out in the junior engineer's house here as well as in Mangaluru, said Lokayukta superintendent of police, Sadananda Varnekar.

Varnekar said that the Lokayukta sleuths found that Arun owns a RCC house in the town, a flat in Kadri, Mangaluru, a Maruti Zen car, a Maruti Swift car, two bank lockers, 1.5 kg gold, half kg silver, land documents, savings bank pass book, and some other incriminating documents.

He explained that the Lokayukta officials, during the raids which went on from 4 am to 4 pm on Saturday, during which period inquest and inquiries were conducted, found that the official concerned had assets, value of which were found to be 260 percent of his known sources of income.

In the said raid conducted under the direct supervision of SP, Sadananda Varnekar, Lokayukta deputy superintendents of police, Vittaldas Pai and Umesh Shet, police inspectors, Dileep Kumar, Vijay Prasad, Naveen Jogi, and their team had taken part.