Hyderabad: The CBI unit of Visakhapatnam has registered a case of criminal breach of trust and under the Prevention of Corruption Act against a former inspector who allegedly failed to deposit Rs 1.2 lakh he had seized from an accused in bank, and for giving false deposition in court.
The case was booked after an inquiry against CBI Visakhapatnam’s former inspector N. Raja Rao who is now superintendent of Central Excise at Samalkot.
CBI said the inquiry was held to find the missing Rs1.2 lakh seized from the house of an accused in 2006 in a Cotton Corporation case. The amount was neither deposited in court nor in the CBI’s bank account.
The CBI said, “A case was registered against one T. Bhanoji Rao, the GM of Cotton Corporation of India. Raja Rao searched the house of Bhanoji Rao in Guntur and seized Rs 1.2 lakh. Another search was also conducted in Mumbai in which Rs 1.49 lakh was seized and the same was deposited in the CBI bank account. However the IO didn’t mention this in the charge sheet. Raja Rao told the court in 2013 falsely that no seizures were made at the residence of the accused.”in Mumbai. Enquires found that he had misappropriated Rs 1.2 lakh."
