CBI books 14 babus over disproportionate assets

The drive saw registration of corruption cases against six Group A officers, three Group B officers and five Group C officers of the central government and public sector undertakings, agency sources said. They said alleged disproportionate assets worth Rs 38.47 crore were found during the drive.

A major chunk of the illegal assets allegedly belonged to Ashutosh Singh, DGM in the Ministry of Textiles, who has been booked in a case of disproportionate assets worth over Rs 25 crore. He allegedly posed as a Joint Secretary in the Home Ministry and duped people, promising to get their work done. Singh was apprehended by the agency when he was trying to pay bribe to a Delhi Police SHO for saving him in a cheating case, the sources said.

They said while the documented value of his assets is about Rs 25 crore, five times more than his known sources of income, the market value of 27 properties owned by him and his relatives could be in the range of hundreds of crores of rupees. These included shops in Andheri, flats in posh societies in Mumbai and land in Noida and Mumbai.

Besides him, other Group A officers booked by the agency included Senior Manager in Bharat Coking Coal Limited Narayan Singh, who allegedly amassed disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 1.9 crore.