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43 Telangana officials added 356 properties worth ₹448 crore after 2014
43 Telangana officials added 356 properties worth ₹448 crore after 2014
An analysis of disproportionate assets cases against 43 Telangana government officials reveals they jointly acquired 356 properties worth an estimated ₹448 crore after 2014, compared to 146 properties worth ₹159 crore before…
An analysis of disproportionate assets cases against 43 Telangana government officials reveals they jointly acquired 356 properties worth an estimated ₹448 crore after 2014, compared to 146 properties worth ₹159 crore before that year. The numbers come from property details compiled by anti-corruption investigators in pending cases.
Individual cases show stark jumps: Irrigation engineer-in-chief Cheeti Muralidhar went from four properties worth ₹18 crore to 13 properties worth ₹105 crore after 2014. Assistant agriculture director S Kiran Kumar owned two properties before 2014 and 28 after it. Three officials, a special deputy collector, a tahsildar and a motor vehicle inspector, had zero listed properties before 2014 but acquired between 20 and 29 each after the cutoff.
The registered document value of post-2014 properties is ₹123 crore, while their estimated present market value is ₹448 crore. Investigators must still determine how much of this growth exceeds legitimate income, the core question in each disproportionate assets case.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Telangana's ACB typically files a disproportionate assets case after a trap or search, but the final charge sheet often takes years because proving the 'disproportionate' component requires matching every rupee of asset growth to documented income. The 2014 cutoff is not arbitrary, that year Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh, creating a whole new state bureaucracy. Many of the 43 officials now under scrutiny were among those who opted for the new state, and the property explosion after that date tracks closely with the period when large irrigation and land-use projects were fast-tracked. The real test is whether the ACB files charge sheets in these cases within the next 12 months, if it does not, the cases risk becoming dormant like many older DA probes.
Source: telugu360.com
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