Daily wager to RTA official with ₹ 6crore asset, now in net

HYDERABAD: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths on Friday arrested an administrative officer (AO) posted at the Telangana transport commissioner’s office after unearthing ₹6 crore worth disproportionate assets. The arrest revealed how the accused who started his career in 1981 as a daily-wage worker wrote his own rags to riches story through corruption.
The accused official is P Ravinder, AO, office of the transport commissioner. After gathering preliminary information about the assets of Ravinder, ACB sleuths registered a case against him for possessing disproportionate assets and planned for searches at his properties.
On Friday morning, ACB teams conducted simultaneous searches at six places including his house at Hyderguda at Rajendranagar and his office at Khairatabad.
During the searches, ACB sleuths unearthed ₹6 crore worth disproportionate assets including a G+4 building at Sree Venkat Sai Colony, Hyderguda in Rajendranagar, two G+1 houses and three house plots at Hanamkonda, a Maruti S Cross Delta car, an Alto, two bikes, 1 kg gold jewellery, ₹12 lakh cash, ₹35 lakh fixed deposits, ₹3.15 lakh bank balance and ₹5 lakh worth of household articles.
ACB officials revealed that Ravinder started his career in 1981 as a daily-wage worker in the irrigation department’s Sriram Sagar Project in Karimnagar. In 1986 he joined the department as a work inspector. In 1999, due to excess staff in the irrigation department, he was posted in transport department as a junior assistant. In 2008 he was promoted as senior assistant and in 2013 he became administrative officer.
The accused will be produced before the court for judicial remand.