ACB seizes disproportionate income from government official

The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) raided different premises of an assistant accounts officer posted in the Chhattisgarh State Food and Civil Supply Corporation at Bilaspur today and unearthed disproportionate assets worth over Rs 2 crore, sources said.
"ACB sleuths raided assistant accounts officer Patrush Tirki's residence and unearthed disproportionate assets worth Rs 2.02 crore," a senior ACB official told reporters here.
Total assets seized include a two-storeyed building at VIP City in Rajkishore Nagar locality of Bilaspur town worth Rs 50 lakh, a plot worth Rs 25 lakh near Mopka gas godown in the name of his wife Shanti Tirki, a house worth Rs 20 lakh in Geetanjali City's Phase II and a plot worth Rs 65 lakh in Chilhati village, ACB sources said.

His assets also included two wheelers and four wheelers, worth Rs 20 lakh and jewellery worth around 10 lakh, besides Rs 3.50 lakh in various bank accounts as well as Rs 8 lakh invested in life insurance policies, the official said.
After receiving complaints against Tirki that he had amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, ACB officials verified it and raided his house and other premises, the official said.
"A case has been registered against him under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act," he said.
Patrush Triki began his service in 1997 with the Chhattisgarh government-run civil supplies corporation in Bhopal, in erstwhile Madhya Pradesh.

Later, he worked in Janjgir-Champa and Kawardha districts, before being elevated to the post of assistant accounts officer in 2010, sources said.