Cash and jewellery recovered from executive engineer’s Patna flat during SVU search on Tuesday Patna: Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) recovered Rs 9.5 lakh in cash and gold and silver jewellery valued at around Rs 81 lakh during searches at different premises of Harendra Kumar, executive engineer of the minor water resources department, Banka division, in…
Patna: The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) on Monday arrested two persons while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1.26 lakh for clearing bills related to PCC road and drain construction works in Banka district.The accused were identified as Om Prakash Mandal, a private assistant, and Jageshwar Mandal, a night guard, both associated with the Banka…
Preliminary verification revealed that Arvind Kumar Chaudhary had allegedly amassed assets worth Rs 1.19 crore, around 85.05% more than his known sources of income Patna: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) on Thursday conducted simultaneous raids at six premises linked to Arvind Kumar Chaudhary, executive engineer of the minor irrigation division in Sasaram, in connection with…
Patna: The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) on Monday arrested a station house officer (SHO) in Patna district for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 27,000 inside the police station premises.The accused, sub-inspector Saurabh Kumar, SHO of Samyagarh police station, was allegedly demanding weekly payments from a complainant in exchange for allowing an earthmover machine to…
Patna: The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) has launched an investigation into alleged disproportionate assets worth Rs1.41 crore against Awdhesh Kumar Sinha, superintending engineer in the tourism department. The assets are around 75% higher than his known source of income.A case was registered against Sinha at Vigilance Police Station on July 16 under Section 13(2) read…
Patna: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) on Wednesday conducted simultaneous raids at six locations linked to Pawan Kumar, superintending engineer, building construction circle-1, Patna, in a disproportionate assets case. Searches are underway in Patna, Bhagalpur, Noida and New Delhi. Assets worth over Rs 3.89 crore have been unearthed so far, officials said.Searches were conducted at…
Patna: A special vigilance court in Patna on Tuesday sentenced sub-inspector Poonam Kumari, formerly posted at Hajipur Town police station, to three years’ rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 in a corruption case.The case was registered in Nov 2024 under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The complainant alleged Poonam…
Two govt officials arrested accepting bribes Patna: The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) on Wednesday arrested two govt officials for allegedly accepting bribes in Patna and Nawada districts.In the first case, Dr Ajay Kumar, regional additional director (Health) of Tirhut division, Muzaffarpur, was caught red-handed accepting Rs 40,000 from Govind Mitra Road under Pirbahore police station…
