New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday recovered 31 gold bars, weighing 3.20 kilograms and worth over Rs 82 lakhs, from a bank locker of suspended senior IAS officer in the Delhi Government Sanjay Pratap Singh, who has been arrested on bribery charges.
CBI unearthed five lockers owned by Singh and made several recoveries including documents related to some properties.
CBI sources claimed that so far, documents related to eight properties in posh areas such as Safdarjung Enclave here, Sector 56 in Gurgaon, Sector 44 and Sector 50 of Noida and high-end construction in Greater Noida which is worth around Rs 20 crore, have also been recovered by the agency.
The fixed deposit receipts of over Rs one crore have been found during searches yesterday.
The agency sources claimed that the locker opened today by the CBI was jointly in the name of Singh, 1984-batch IAS of AGMUT cadre, and his wife.
800 grams of silver was also seized from the locker. Other documents showing investments in bank accounts; fixed deposits and PPF accounts were also recovered.
The sources said that the recoveries made from Singh's residence yesterday reveals that he was living a chic lifestyle as the agency found 300 bottles of high-end liquor brands like Blue Label, Glenmorangie and expensive watches like Rolex, Rado and many other such labels.
Singh, who was the Principal Secretary in the Department of SC, ST and Minorities, was arrested along with his personal assistant by CBI last night for allegedly receiving bribe of Rs 2.20 lakhs for clearing bills of a security firm supplying manpower to his department.
IAS and his personal assistant were arrested after the complainant approached Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office.
"CBI laid a trap and the PA was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe of Rs 2.2 lakhs from the complainant on behalf of the said officer, who allegedly asked him to deliver the same in his car.
"The PA delivered the money in his car which was intercepted by the CBI team outside his office and the officer was nabbed with the bribe amount," CBI spokesperson said here.
(With inputs from PTI)
