A special court here has issued an arrest warrant against the Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS couple, Tinoo Joshi and Arvind Joshi, for having disproportionate income of over Rs. 350 crore.
Special Judge Dinesh Kumar Mishra issued the arrest warrants late Thursday evening as they failed to appear in the court even for a single hearing.
The court also issued arrest warrants against Mr. Joshi’s two NRI sisters and six others allegedly involved in the case. The arrest warrants against the sisters will be executed through Interpol.
The court has fixed next hearing on September 9 and the police have to execute the warrants before that.
The Lokayukta police submitted its charge sheet against them and 18 others on Feburary 22 under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. They were terminated from service last month, nearly four years after Income Tax officials raided their house in 74 bungalows area here and found cash and incriminating documents.
The couple has bought agricultural and non-agricultural land at several places including near Kanha and Bandhavgarh national parks, Raisen, Balaghat, Sehore and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, according to an appraisal report by the I-T department.
The couple had purchased 18 flats in Guwahati, six in Bhopal and one in New Delhi and that papers of seven plots at Patel Nagar in central Delhi have been recovered from their possession.
The I-T department has further claimed that they recovered jewellery worth Rs. 67 lakh and foreign currency worth Rs. 7 lakh.
