CBI officer’s assets jump 300% in three years: FIR

CBI officer’s assets jump 300% in three years: FIR

‘2 Flats Bought For ₹2 Crore Without Loans’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bengaluru:  30.06.2021

A deputy superintendent of police with CBI’s anti-corruption unit in Bengaluru has been charged by his own agency with possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. According to the FIR against him, the officer’s assets showed a 300% jump in the last three years.

The officer under scanner is Brajesh Kumar. In the complaint lodged by IPS officer Santosh Hadimani in Delhi, Kumar’s parents Sheo Yogi Singh and Lalitha Singh have also been named as accused.

The FIR said Kumar, who is from Patna, joined CBI in 2008 and was promoted as inspector in 2013. He became a DSP in 2017. Kumar’s father Sheo Yogi Singh retired as assistant registrar of Patna High Court in 2003 and mother Lalitha is a homemaker. The FIR stated that Kumar had amassed wealth in the name of his family members.

According to the FIR, Kumar purchased a flat in his father’s name at Prestige Royale Gardens on Yelahanka-Doddaballapur Road in March 2020 for around Rs 96.4 lakh. A second flat was bought in the same apartment in Lalitha’s name in December 2020 for around Rs 95.3 lakh. Kumar and his parents did not avail any financial assistance or loan for the purchase, said the FIR.

Another flat was purchased in his wife’s name in 2014 on Bannerghatta Road, the FIR stated.