The Karnataka Lokayukta Wednesday launched state-wide raids in opposition to eight authorities officers, together with an IAS officer, Vasanthi Amar, in an alleged disproportionate belongings case.
Amar is presently appointed because the Particular Deputy Commissioner, Okay-RIDE, which is implementing the Bengaluru Suburban Railway Undertaking.
The Karnataka Lokayukta is conducting searches on the IAS officer’s R T Nagar residence in Bengaluru.
Final week, an FIR was filed in opposition to Amar by the Halasuru Gate police in Bengaluru for allegedly issuing an unlawful order associated to a ten.2-acre land parcel in Dasanapura hobli, Bengaluru North, between June and September 2024.
The grievance was lodged by Prashanth Khangouda Patil, an workplace assistant within the deputy commissioner’s workplace. Initially, a non-cognizable report (NCR) was recorded, however it was transformed into an FIR below Part 257 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for a public servant corruptly making a report opposite to regulation, following a court docket order.
Amar, a 2017-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was serving as Particular Deputy Commissioner-3, Bengaluru North, on the time of the alleged incident.
Raids are additionally underway on the homes of Manjunathswamy M, Joint Director, Talent Growth Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Division, Madikeri; B Venkatarama, Workplace Assistant (Admin) at Mysore Mahanagar Palike, Mysore; Rajesh M, Assistant Government Engineer at KIADB, Tumkur Division Workplace; Sunil Kumar, Government Engineer, Household and Welfare Workplace, Kalaburagi; Sheku, Assistant Director, District Industries Centre (DIC), Koppal.
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Searches are additionally underway at places linked to Bagli Maruti, Assistant Director, Metropolis and Rural Undertaking Division, Sahakarnagar, Bengaluru, and H V Yerappa Reddy, Government Engineer, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), C V Raman Nagar, Bengaluru.