Bhopal:
Income Tax made a surprise raid against top bureaucrats in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, crores tumble out.
Four crore in cash. Deposits of Rs 40 crore in banks. Jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore. Other investments worth Rs 3 crore. This is the sort of wealth accumulated by top bureaucrats in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Cash Deposits: 40 crore
Cash: Rs. 4 crore
Jewellery: Rs. 1.5 crore approximately
Foreign Exchange: Rs. 7 Lakh approximately
Investments: Rs. 3 crore
Assets: Still under Scrutiny
Approximate Figures
The income tax raids that revealed this were conducted against three serving IAS officers, two of them of the Principal Secretary Rank.
Discovered in the home of Chhattisgarh Agriculture Secretary BL Agarwal: 52 lakhs in cash and jewellery worth 72 lakh.
Arvind Joshi, Principal Secretary, Jail and Parliamentary Affairs, MP
Tinoo Joshi, Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development, MP
Tinoo Joshi took over the department of Women and Child Development in Madhya Pradesh in 2008 and made purchases worth rupees 100 crore for the department. In the first year of her tenure, 200 children died of malnutrition across Madhya Pradesh.
The rest of the raid money were recovered from engineers, businessmen and insurance agents who worked for them.
"The investments made by this group of people are being examined," said Brijesh Gupta, Director General, Income Tax, Madhya Pradesh.
Even as we cover this raid, three top IAS officers of the Madhya Pradesh cadre are being investigated for big cases of corruption by the Lokayukt.
Name: Dr. Rajesh Rajora:
Designation: Member, Revenue Board
Charges: Multi-crore medicines purchase scam
Name: Ajita Bajpayee Pandey:
Designation: Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Mining
Charges: Multi-crore coal purchase scam
Name: J N Kansotiya:
Designation: Commissioner, Honshangabad Division
Charges: Gave clean chit to corrupt sarpanchs
Looks like Madhya Pradesh' roll call of corruption may just get longer.
Four crore in cash. Deposits of Rs 40 crore in banks. Jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore. Other investments worth Rs 3 crore. This is the sort of wealth accumulated by top bureaucrats in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Cash Deposits: 40 crore
Cash: Rs. 4 crore
Jewellery: Rs. 1.5 crore approximately
Foreign Exchange: Rs. 7 Lakh approximately
Investments: Rs. 3 crore
Assets: Still under Scrutiny
Approximate Figures
The income tax raids that revealed this were conducted against three serving IAS officers, two of them of the Principal Secretary Rank.
Discovered in the home of Chhattisgarh Agriculture Secretary BL Agarwal: 52 lakhs in cash and jewellery worth 72 lakh.
- BL Agarwal, Agriculture Secretary, Chhattisgarh
- Cash: Rs. 52 lakh
- Jewellery: Rs. 72 lakh
- BL Agarwal, Agriculture Secretary, Chhattisgarh
- 220 benami pass books: Rs. 40 crore
- Papers of bogus companies
Arvind Joshi, Principal Secretary, Jail and Parliamentary Affairs, MP
Tinoo Joshi, Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development, MP
- Cash: Rs. 3 crore
- Foreign Exchange: Rs. 7 lakh
- Jewellery: Rs. 66 lakh
- Investments: Rs. 3 crore
- Assets: Still under Scrutiny
- 5 bank lockers sealed
Tinoo Joshi took over the department of Women and Child Development in Madhya Pradesh in 2008 and made purchases worth rupees 100 crore for the department. In the first year of her tenure, 200 children died of malnutrition across Madhya Pradesh.
The rest of the raid money were recovered from engineers, businessmen and insurance agents who worked for them.
"The investments made by this group of people are being examined," said Brijesh Gupta, Director General, Income Tax, Madhya Pradesh.
Even as we cover this raid, three top IAS officers of the Madhya Pradesh cadre are being investigated for big cases of corruption by the Lokayukt.
Name: Dr. Rajesh Rajora:
Designation: Member, Revenue Board
Charges: Multi-crore medicines purchase scam
Name: Ajita Bajpayee Pandey:
Designation: Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Mining
Charges: Multi-crore coal purchase scam
Name: J N Kansotiya:
Designation: Commissioner, Honshangabad Division
Charges: Gave clean chit to corrupt sarpanchs
Looks like Madhya Pradesh' roll call of corruption may just get longer.
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