Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 09 2009:
Acting on an anti-corruption case, officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation raided the residence of the Supervisor of Imphal Head office at Kongpal Kongkham Leikai and three other houses belonging to his relatives and seized assets worth over Rs 1 crore.
Talking to The Sangai Express official sources said that the residence of the Supervisor of Imphal Head Post Office in charge, SBCO/HPO Irom Niladhaja (50) was raided as he has been charged with possessing properties disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Acting on a complaint the CBI, Imphal branch (Anti-corruption bureau) swung into action and after registering a case against the said official, sought a search warrant from the appropriate Court, the sources said further.
With the Special Judge (Manipur East) issuing the search warrant order on Saturday, the CBI men, along with some eye witnesses serving in Central Government offices, raided Niladhaja's residence and three others belonging to his relatives and friends in Imphal East and seized assets worth over Rs 1 crore.
Sources said that Niladhaja is suspected to possess some luxurious inter-State buses, other than the impounded assets.
The CBI is set to submit a charge sheet soon before a Special Court to try him for possessing wealth and assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The official is said to have been transferred from Imphal to Kohima post office, but he is yet to report to his new place of posting.
The sources further said that the CBI has already submitted charge sheets in connection with the kidnapping and later brutal murder of Lungnila Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Ngajokpa, the then Education Minister in 2003. The trial is underway at a Court here, said the sources further.
The investigating agency had also submitted a charge sheet before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (Churachandpur) in connection with the stabbing to death of a man at Thanlon in Churachandpur district during the 1989 Lok Sabha election.
CBI took up the case after the Gauhati High Court issued an order, said the sources and added that the agency is handling a number of murder and anti-corruption cases in the State.