Lokayukta sleuths raid places connected to 8 officers in disproportionate assets case

Bengaluru, Jul 23 (PTI) The Lokayukta sleuths on Wednesday carried out searches in premises connected to eight officers, including an IAS officer, in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
    The IAS officer Vasanthi Amar B V was posted in Railway Infrastructure Development Company, Karnataka (K-RIDE) as Special Deputy Commissioner and was handling the land acquisition section in the K-RIDE and was entrusted with providing land to the ambitious Bengaluru Sub-urban Railway Project (BSRP).
    Sources in K-RIDE told PTI that the activities at BSRP has come to a grinding halt as the contractor firm has threatened to stop the work in the absence of land acquisition for the project.
    The officers who were targeted in the raid are Manjunathaswamy M, Joint Director Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and livelihood Department in Madikeri, the district headquarters town of Kodagu; B Venkatarama, office Assistant (Admin) Mysuru Mahanagara Palilke, Rajesh M Assistant Executive Engineer, KIADB, Tumakuru; Sunil Kumar Executive Engineer, Family and Welfare office, Engineering Section, Kalaburagi.
    Other officials targetted in the raid are: Sheku, Assistant Director, District Industries Centre, Koppal; Bagli Maruti Assistant Director, City and Rural Project Department, Bengaluru City; and HV Yerappa Reddy Executive Engineer, BBMP.

(This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)