In a serious crackdown, the Karnataka Lokayukta Tuesday morning launched simultaneous raids at a number of places throughout the state, focusing on eight authorities officers, together with a Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) engineer, accused of amassing belongings disproportionate to their identified sources of revenue.
The coordinated operation noticed sleuths fan out throughout Bengaluru, Anekal, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru, Dharwad, Gadag, and Kalaburagi, the place residences and workplaces of the officers had been searched.
These underneath the scanner are: Prakash, assistant engineer with BBMP, Govindrajnagar, Bengaluru; Dr S Pradeep, affiliate analysis director (natural farming), Shivamogga; Latha Mani, accounts officer, city municipality, Chikkamagaluru; Okay G Amarnath, chief officer, city municipality, Anekal; Dhruvaraj, city police inspector, Gadag; Ashok Valsand, engineer, Malaprabha mission, Dharwad; Mallikarjun Alipur, former engineer, rural growth and panchayat raj division, Kalaburagi; and Ramachandra, panchayat growth officer, Kalaburagi.
Based on sources inside the Lokayukta, the searches had been primarily based on info indicating that these officers had been allegedly concerned in accumulating wealth far in extra of their authorized revenue. The groups are reported to have recovered massive sums of unaccounted money, gold ornaments, and luxurious gadgets, amongst different incriminating paperwork, in the course of the raids.