The Vigilance police on Friday raided the houses and office room of a Block Grant lecturer, Ramchandra Upadhyay, of the Talanagar College in Soro in Baleswar district on the charge of amassing properties disproportionate to his known sources of income and detected assets worth Rs 2,82,87,273 in his and his family members’ names.
Acting on a complaint, a five-member team of the State’s anti-corruption unit conducted the raid at five places on the strength of a search warrant issued by the court.
His residential house-cum-girls’ mess at College Chhak, Soro, a three-storied building used as girls’ mess at Soro, his house at his native Asimela village under Soro police station, office room at Talanagar College and a house of his relative at Madhusudanpur in Bhadrak district were simultaneously searched.
The detected assets include a four-storied building of Rs 1,16,19,660, a triple-storied building of Rs 73,77,358, two homestead plots of Rs 2,60,900, bank deposits of Rs 19,72,129, insurance of Rs 21,28,899, Inova Crysta car of Rs 21, 15, 037, a motorcycle of Rs 62,000, gold ornaments of Rs 14,29,735, hard cash of Rs 3,29,600 and household articles of Rs 9,91,995.
The enquiry was still in progress, informed an official release.
