School teacher in Ch''''nagar found owning 7 sites
Bengaluru, Dec 23 (DHNS): The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday raided the residences and offices of seven government officials in different parts of the state for possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The officials raided are: Basavaraju, BBMP’s assistant director of Town Planning (Mahadevapura); H L Puttalingaiah, assistant engineer of PWD (Irrigation), Hangal sub division, Chitradurga; Umesh N Patil, assistant executive engineer, KRIDL, Davangere; Dr S Pampapathi, principal, District Training Centre, District Hospital, Ballari; H R Rechanna, government school teacher at Chamarajanagar; Govinda Naik, first division assistant at Beltangady taluk office and his wife Leelavathi, senior women health assistant at Punjalakatte Health Centre and C S Vinay Kumar, BBMP revenue collector at Puttenahalli Ward.
Raid at Govinda Naik''s house in Beltangady
An official said the raid was conducted at Basavaraju’s residence at Rajarajeshwarinagar and his office in Mahadevapura. The ACB officials have seized documents pertaining to a three-storied building at University Layout in Rajarajeshwarinagar, a two-floor building at Padmanabhanagar, a site at Kottigepalya and five acres and 14 guntas of agricultural land in two different locations in Magadi taluk of Ramanagaram district.
Officials searched the residence of Puttalingaiah in Taralabalunagar, Chitradurga and found that he owned two sites at Kelgote village, three sites at Medehalli village, one site each at Madakaripura and Channenahalli, a three-storied building at Medehalli and another building in the same village.
The ACB officials seized property documents from the house of Umesh Patil at Vivekananda Extension in Davangere. Patil possessed three sites and a three-storied building in Shabanuru village, two acres and 16.5 guntas of agriculture land at Halekhalegrama, 26 guntas of agriculture land at Halekhalegrama, two-storied building at Davangere city, one acre and 19 guntas of agriculture land at Agasanakatte village, two acres and 11 guntas of agriculture land at Teredanahalli village, two sites at Kundawada village, two sites at Kabanuru village and one acre and 9 guntas of agriculture land in Hoskote taluk.
The ACB officials said that Pampapathi possessed six sites in Ballari and one in Bengaluru. Meanwhile, a teacher at government school in Chamarajanagar Rechanna possessed seven sites in Chamarajanagar and Mysuru. He also owned three acres of agricultural land in and around Chamarajanagar.
The ACB officials found that BBMP revenue collector Vinay Kumar possessed a flat at Vijayanagar in Bengaluru, one acre and 26 guntas of land and another plot of one acre and 35 guntas at BM Kaval at Kengeri hobli, a two-storied building at Kempapura Agrahara, one kg gold, bank deposits of Rs 31 lakh, Rs 1.16 lakh in cash and 4,186 US dollars.