Madhya Pradesh: Lokayukta official confirmed on Dec.24, that the anti-corruption body found assets worth ₹7.98 crore on a former police constable. The assets include ₹2.87 crore in cash and 234 kilograms of silver.
The Lokayukta’s searched former constable Saurabh Sharma’s house on December 18 and December 19 and found documents proving that he possessed assets worth ₹7.98 crore.
Lokayukta Police Director General Jaideep Prasad said Saurabh Sharma’s father RK Sharma was a government doctor and died in 2015.
Saurabh Sharma was appointed as a constable in the state transport department on compassionate grounds in 2015. He took voluntary retirement in 2023.
The official said that the former cop used the ill-gotten wealth to set up a school and hotel in the name of his mother, wife, sister-in-law and associates.
The police found ₹1.15 crore in cash, ₹50 lakh in jewellery, vehicles worth ₹2.21 crore and jewellery worth ₹50 lakh.
In the raid at his office, the police found ₹1.72 crore in cash, 234 kg of silver valued at ₹2.10 crore and other assets of ₹3 crore.