Sleuths of the Anti Corruption Bureau on Wednesday nabbed an employee of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) department and seized assets estimated at over ₹50 crore.
ACB officials carried out raids against K.V. Narayana Reddy, working as Senior Assistant in the nutrition supply section of the ICDS department at Kadiri (West). They launched simultaneous raids at eight different places in Anantapur and Chittoor districts.
Searches were conducted at the accused official’s house at Kovur Nagar in Anantapur and at several places in the district, and also in his hometown of Ramacherla village in Pakala mandal of Chittoor district.
Deputy Superintendent of ACB Jayaramaraju told The Hindu that their searches unearthed disproportionate assets worth several crores — estimated to be over ₹50 crore — the estimates of which were yet to be completed.
Documents pertaining to one single storeyed building besides a double-storeyed building in the name of the accused official; and two single storeyed buildings and a double storeyed building besides five house plots in and around Anantapur town, in the name of the accused official’s wife, were seized during the raids.
Besides these, four agricultural plots measuring several acres each were identified in Anantapur urban, Anantapur rural and Pamidi mandals of Anantapur district, while mortgage deeds were found for a house plot and house site in Anantapur. Mortgage deed for an agriculture land in Marur village was also found.
Documents pertaining to a single storeyed building, a house site in Anantapur and agricultural land in Golakuru village — in the name of the accused’s son — were also found.
A single storeyed building and a house in Kakkalapalli village on the outskirts of Anantapur in the name of the accused’s daughter-in law, were seized.
Other than the seized properties, one kg gold, 1.5 kg of silver and ₹2.32 lakh of cash were also seized, besides a car and three motorcycles.
The accused has been arrested while the case is under investigation.
