DA case: Constable, kin in Patna own assets worth over Rs 9.47 crore

PATNA: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar police on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids on nine premises of a constable, Narendra Kumar Dheeraj, and his brothers in Patna, Arwal and Ara and unearthed assets worth at least of Rs 9.47 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Dheeraj is also the president of Bihar Policemen’s Association.The EOU sources said the assets are worth 544% more than his known sources of income. The searches were conducted after registering an FIR on Monday and procuring search warrants from a special court in Patna.
When contacted, ADG (EOU) Nayyar Hasnain Khan said a large number of land deeds, bank passbooks and documents pertaining to investments in LIC have been recovered. “His brothers and other family members have no source of income. The joint family is dependent on Dheeraj. All the properties are amassed from the ill-gotten money earned by Dheeraj by misusing his position and power,” he said. “We have come to know that Dheeraj also owns around 20 trucks, buses and other vehicles,” Khan added.
“These are additional recovery about which there was no prior knowledge. Their values are to be ascertained. These will be added to Rs9.47 crore worth of disproportionate assets (DA) unearthed,” the ADG said. Khan said Dheeraj has a present monthly salary of around Rs52,000, including allowances.
As per the EOU, Dheeraj joined service as a constable in Nalanda district police on May 13, 1988 and presently he is posted in Patna.
The raids were carried out on Dheeraj’s two-storey private residence at Mahavir Colony in Beur, Patna, his paternal residence at village Muzaffarpur at Sahar in Bhojpur, his second brother Ashok Kumar’s residence in Arwal, a four-storey and another five-storey building in the name of Dheeraj’s third brother Surendra Singh and a five-storey house in the name of his fourth brother Vijendra Kumar Vimal, all on Bhelai Road at Krishna Nagar, a mall-cum-residence of his fifth brother Shyam Bihari Singh and a cement shop in the name of his sixth brother Surendra Kumar Singh at Narayanpur besides nephew Dharmendra Kumar’s shop named Ashutosh Traders, all in Bhojpur. These eight persons are named accused in the DA case.
The EOU has found four residential plots at Bazaar Samiti, Jagdeo Nagar, an agricultural plot at Udwant Nagar in the name of Vijendra, commercial, residential and agricultural plots at 10 places in Surendra’s name, 50 decimal agricultural plot at Narhi in Virendra’s name, four residential and agricultural plots in Ashok’s name, one residential plot at Gorhna in Shyam’s name, 64.5 decimal agricultural land at Narhi in Sahar in Shashi’s name and 51 decimal plot at Jagdishpur in nephew Dharmendra’s name, all located in Bhojpur.
The ADG said it would also be investigated if Dheeraj amassed these properties by helping the sand mafias as one of his brothers was arrested in Jehanabad two months back for helping vehicles carrying illegally mined sand.