IAS officer guilty of criminal misconduct: CBI to court

CBI on Thursday told a Delhi court that it has invoked the provision of criminal misconduct against senior IAS officer Sanjay Pratap Singh and his personal assistant, arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2.2 lakh and huge amount of gold has also been recovered from the bureaucrat’s bank locker. The agency told this to Special CBI Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna who extended the police custody of Singh, a 1984-batch IAS officer of AGMUT cadre, and his personal assistant Ramesh by seven days. Both the accused were produced in the court after expiry of their one-day CBI custody during which the agency claimed to have recovered gold worth over Rs 80 lakh from one of the bank lockers of Singh besides fixed deposit receipts of crores of rupees. The prosecutor told the court that several gold bars have been recovered from the bank locker and various property papers were also seized from Singh’s house. Seeking 13-day police custody of both the accused, he said that custodial interrogation of the accused was required to know the source of money and gold recovered.

“They are part of proceeds of crime committed by the accused,” the prosecutor said, adding that till now the probe has shown that there are six properties in the name of Singh and his family members. “We have now imposed provision of criminal misconduct under PC Act on the accused. Need to do more recoveries and the documents recovered are voluminous.