Hyderabad: Gold, silver found in EB Nagaraju’s lockers

HYDERABAD: ACB sleuths opened two bank lockers on Thursday in the corruption case registered against tahsildar EB Nagaraju and found Rs 69 lakh worth gold and silver along with some property documents. Nagaraju had allegedly ended his life in prison on October 13.
ACB sleuths opened ICICI Bank lockers in Old Alwal and Medchal branches belonging to , Nagaraju’s benamis — PJ Mahender Kumar and his brother PJ Nanda Gopal.In the Alwal branch locker, 65-tola gold jewellery worth Rs 65 lakh was found and in Medchal branch locker, Rs 4.5 lakh worth 35 silver biscuits, weighing 7.3 kilos, were found. “During the investigation, it was revealed that Swapna, wife of Nagaraju, was using the two lockers opened in the name of benamis. They were friends of Nagaraju,” said an ACB official. ACB seized the gold and silver.