EOU finds DA worth Rs85.77L amassed by suspended SDPO

PATNA: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of state police on Wednesday unearthed immovable and movable assets worth at least Rs85.77 lakh crore disproportionate to the known sources of income of suspended Aurangabad Sadar SDPO Anup Kumar. This is 55% more than his known sources of income.

The EOU conducted raids at three locations of Anup in Patna, Ranchi and Gaya and found properties worth approximately Rs1.53 crore. Anup, along with the then Aurangabad and Bhojpur SPs, Sudhir Kumar Porika and Rakesh Kumar Dubey, was suspended for their alleged connivance with sand smugglers earlier this year. This is the tenth disproportionate assets case in the sand smuggling inquiry conducted by the EOU.

The Wednesday raids were conducted at Anup’s flat in Shambhavi enclave near Bootnath Road in Patna, his ancestral house at Nutan Nagar in Gaya and another flat at Luvkush Apartment on Ratu Road in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Sources said the EOU has come to know about his two bank accounts.

EOU sources said the DSP purchased the flat of 1250 square feet at Bhoothnath Road, an agricultural land of 6.25 decimal in Ismailpur at Phulwarisharif and a residential plot at Nandlal Chapra in Patna and the flat in Ranchi for Rs75.68 lakh, as per the deeds.

“However, the documents show Rs56 lakh were paid for the residential plot,” a source said. EOU sources said the raiding team at Gaya came to know that massive expansion work was being carried out at his ancestral property.

Sources said Anup joined the service as a sub-inspector of police in 1989 and his total known earning has been calculated around Rs 1.56 crore while his total expenditure is approximately Rs89.31 lakh. “Instead, he has been found possessing Rs1.53 crore worth properties,” a source said.

EOU sources said the suspended DSP might be quizzed very soon in the DA case registered against him on Monday after which search warrants were procured from the court to conduct the raids.