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IPS and Retd IAS Officer Booked for Corruption

(New Delhi,Jaipur) IPS and Retd IAS Officer Booked for Corruption
The CBI has booked a retired IAS officer Satyendra Singh, for alleged corruption in giving leases to facilitate illegal mining of minor minerals in Kaushambi when he was posted as a district magistrate during 2012-14, officials said Tuesday.
Searches at nine locations, including the residential premises of accused led to recovery of documents of 44 properties worth tens of crore in the name of the officer and relatives in Lucknow, Kanpur, Ghaziabad and New Delhi.
As per CBI spokesperson RC Joshi ,”During searches at the premises of then district magistrate, cash of Rs 10 lakh (approx); documents relating to around 44 immovable properties; fixed deposits worth Rs 51 lakh (approx); around 36 bank accounts, in the name of said public servant and his family members at Lucknow, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, New Delhi and keys of six lockers were found. Gold and silver jewellery of Rs 2.11 crore(approx) and old currency of Rs one lakh (approx) were also found in the lockers,”
The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested an IPS officer Manish Agarwal on corruption charges in Jaipur on Tuesday
A 2010-batch IPS officer, Agarwal is currently posted as the commandant of the State Disaster Response Force, Jaipur. He held the charge of the Dausa SP at the time of the alleged incident.
He has been involved in controversies in the past due to different reasons.
Agrawal, who is from Uttar Pradesh, was an IPS officer of the J-K cadre before his transfer to Rajasthan in 2014 on the ground of marriage with an IPS officer of state cadre.