Tumakuru, May 17: Karnataka Lokayukta raids at the officers’ homes, offices, and their relatives’ homes & said that they raided over 35 locations linked to seven government officers in Bengaluru city as well as Bengaluru Rural, Tumakuru, Mangaluru, Vijayapura, and Yadgir districts, and uncovered disproportionate assets of Rs 22.7 crore .
The raids were conducted at the officers’ homes, offices, and their relatives’ homes.
According to the Lokayukta police, one H R Nataraj, a Legal Metrology Inspector in Bengaluru’s city market-1 subdivision, held assets worth Rs 3.94 crore, including two sites, two houses, and nine acres of agricultural land valued at Rs 3.13 crore, plus movable assets like Rs 21 lakh in ornaments and Rs 1.50 lakh cash.
Lokayukta sleuths also searched locations linked to Anantha Kumar, a second-division Assistant at the Hosakote taluk office in Bengaluru Rural and unearthed Rs 1.96 crore in assets, including a house and five acres of land valued at Rs 1.51 crore.
The other five officers and their assets seized during the raids as per the Lokayukta are as follows: Additional Director of Town Planning at the Bengaluru Development Authority, possessed Rs 3.47 crore in assets, with three sites and three houses worth Rs 3.16 crore, along with Rs 25.54 lakh in ornaments.
Rajashekhara D, Planning Director at Nirmithi Kendra, Tumakuru, held assets worth Rs 5.74 crore, including 12 sites, four houses, and four acres of land worth Rs 3.89 crore, with movable assets like Rs 89.06 lakh in ornaments and vehicles worth Rs 37.92 lakh.
In Mangaluru, Manjunatha M R, Survey Supervisor at the UPOR (Urban Property Ownership Record) Office, had assets worth Rs 2.56 crore, including nine sites and two houses valued at Rs 2.31 crore. Renuka Satarle, a former district manager at Dr BR Ambedkar Development Corporation Limited in Vijayapura, possessed Rs 3.10 crore in assets, with three sites, two houses, and movable assets like Rs 58.80 lakh in ornaments.
Umakanth Halle, Tahsildar of Shahapura taluk in Yadgir district, held assets worth Rs 1.98 crore, including two sites and two houses.
More reports awaited.
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