Hyderabad: Excise official held on graft charges
Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids on six properties belonging to Nizamabad prohibition and excise superintendent Boora Jyothi Kiran in Hyderabad, Sangareddy and Nizamabad districts, under the supervision of DSP J. Ashok Kumar.
Director-general of the ACB, J. Poornachander, informed the media that Jyothi Kiran had acquired 30 acres of agricultural land in Nyalkal near Zahirabad in Sangareddy district valued at Rs 18.07 lakh. In addition, he listed other assets the raids had unearthed: a flat at Bhavani Residency in Bagh Amberpet worth Rs 30.6 lakh and another flat at Simgekar Apartment in Nallak-unta with a document value of Rs 14.4 lakh. A house at Tilak Nagar (Rs 23 lakh), two plots in Ghatkesar (Rs 2.14 lakh), one plot in Turkayamjal (Rs 1.6 lakh), 11 open plots at Deshmukhi near Ramoji Film City (Rs 13.30 lakh), two plots at Durga Estate in Bhudan Pochampally (Rs 1.2 lakh), gold ornaments weighing 1.3 kg (Rs 13.91 lakh), one Maruti Swift Dezire car (Rs 8.41 lakh), two two-wheelers (Rs 1.2 lakh) and household articles worth Rs 5 lakh. Jyothi Kiran has been arrested and produced before the ACB court in Nampally.
Family members of Kiran say father retired as a bank manager and the family had properties. They alleged that ACB sleuths have attributed all the property to Jyothi Kiran and have arrested him.