A day after a National Health Mission (NHM) executive engineer was nabbed in Indore while allegedly collecting a bribe, an amount of 33.51 lakh was confiscated from his house in Bhopal today, according to a Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta officer.
NHM executive engineer Rakesh Kumar Singhal (55) was arrested yesterday while allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹ 50,000 cash and ₹ 11.50 lakh by cheque, as a guarantee that the rest of the gratification amount would be paid, from a contractor here, he said.
Lokayukta Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Praveen Singh Baghel said ₹ 33.51 lakh was recovered from Singhal’s residence in Bhopal in a raid, adding that the latter’s family owned a four-storey house and a flat there and efforts were on to uncover disproportionate assets obtained by him.
“The contractor had conducted boring work worth ₹ 1.74 crore to set up tubewells in Indore and Ujjain divisions, but had been paid only ₹ 1.05 crore. Singhal had allegedly demanded ₹ 17 lakh as commission from the contractor and had already taken ₹ 5 lakh,” Mr Baghel said.
Singhal has been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act, he added.
