Civic body suspends crorepati peon

INDORE: A day after Lokayukta police unearthed disproportionate assets amounting to Rs 10 crores from the residence of Ujjain Municipal Corporation(UMC) peon Narendra Deshmukh, while probing his bank account details found that the family had made transactions of Rs 2.25 crores in last months.
Also, the civic body where he was employed since 31 years suspended him and has started departmental inquiry against him.He also is reported to be involved in some scams earlier in the civic body. The Lokayukta police had said it would also probe the role of his seniors in the civic body.
On day one of the raid, the police had unearthed properties worth Rs 10 crores spread in the state, neighbouring Maharashtra as well as Haryana.
DSP Lokayukta Police, O P Sagoria said that it was while investigating Deshmukh’s Bank of India accounts, they found jewellery worth Rs 1.5 lakhs. The police also found three accounts in Deshmukh’s name, while two in his wife Jyoti’s name and three more in his two children’s names. Sagoria informed that transactions worth Rs 2.25 crore had taken place in last two months in these bank accounts.
“We need to verify the accounts of Deshmukhs and need to find out the bank transactions in his children accounts’’ said Sagoria. Deshmukh’s two children are college students, according to officials.
The police believe that more unaccounted property details would be unearthed once they begin verifying the accounts and lockers in other banks like State Bank of India and ICICI on Friday.