Over Rs 4 cr unearthed from suspended SSP's in-laws lockers

Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) sleuths have recovered huge cash, jewellery, foreign currencies, and fixed deposits documents worth around Rs 4 crore from six bank lockers held by in-laws of suspended SSP Vivek Kumar from Muzzafarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.

Vigilance team also recovered Rs 7.99 lakh cash, Rs 59,000 demonetised currencies, 20,000 Malaysian Ringgit, jewellery worth Rs 5.48 lakh,household items including cattle of around Rs 5 lakh and one 9 mm country made carbine, one magazine, one .315 bore empty cartridge from residence of the suspended SSP of Muzaffarpur during the raid, Vigilance raid.

Vigilance had conducted raids at official residence of SSP in Muzaffarpur for allegedly amassing three times of disproportionate assets to his known sources of income.

The raids were also conducted at Kumar's native district Saharanpur and his in-laws house at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.

Raids, which began on Monday, concluded this evening, Vigilance sources said.

Confirming the recoveries, Inspector General (IG),SVU, Ratan Sanjay said that "A total of six locker keys has been recovered during the raid at Vivek Kumar's in-laws residence in Muzaffarnagar. Vigilance team has recovered and seized Rs 1.58 crore cash from four out of six lockers held jointly in the name of Vivek Kumar's father-in-law Ved Prakash Karnwal and mother-in-law Uma Rani."