ACB raids residences, offices of 8 government officials in Karnataka

Bengaluru June 16 (IANS) The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Karnataka on Friday raided the houses and offices of eight state government officials across the state.

The surprise raids were conducted in Bengaluru Bidar South Canara Haveri Raichur and Chikballapur districts said the ACB.

Additional Director General of Police N.S. Megharikh and Inspector General K.V. Sharath Chandra of the watchdog supervised the searches in all the seven districts.

The officials under the scanner are K.T. Halaswamy Deputy Commissioner Department of Transport Bengaluru Dr. Kumar Gowda Principal of Health Department Training Centre Mulbagal A Sahadeva Bheemrao Manakere assistant engineer Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company (Gescom) Kalaburagi AS.P. Thippa Reddy assistant engineer Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd Chikmagalur Venkataramanappa hostel warden Social Welfare Department Chikballapura R. Vijayakumar Gudigeri Revenue Inspector Haveri Basavaraj Rudrappa Goudar assistant executive engineer Panchayat Raj Department Raichur Bannappa Komar assistant executive engineer Krishna Jala Bhagya Limited Raichur.

The searches were conducted on credible information that the accused officials were having assets disproportionate to their legal income said the Bureau.

The officials were found to possess huge properties including farmlands residential and commercial sites buildings gold jewellery and silver ornaments unaccounted cash cars bank deposits lockers and foreign currency besides incriminating documents in support of the graft charges.

--IANS
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