Hyderabad: An irrigation department engineer was arrested after Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) raids across Telangana unearthed assets allegedly worth more than ₹25 crore, including a luxury villa, farmland, multiple plots, gold and investments, in a disproportionate assets case.The ACB’s central investigation unit registered a disproportionate assets case against R Satyanarayana (44), deputy executive engineer in the irrigation and command area development department, Nagarkurnool district, under the Prevention of Corruption Act and carried out simultaneous searches at 10 locations on Thursday.The raids covered Satyanarayana’s residence in Karmanghat, his office in Nagarkurnool, and properties linked to his relatives, family members and alleged benamis in Hyderabad, Wanaparthy and Nagarkurnool.Satyanarayana was at his native village, Shapur in Ghanpur mandal of Wanaparthy district, when the searches began. ACB teams later brought him to his Karmanghat residence as the operation continued.During the searches, ACB sleuths unearthed assets that allegedly include 25 acres of agricultural land in Wanaparthy district, a G+1 farmhouse on the same land, a 5,200 square foot villa at Tukkuguda valued at ₹7 crore, a three-bedroom flat in a gated community at Karmanghat, a two-bedroom flat at Nagole, and nine plots in Nagarkurnool.The ACB also found 50 tolas of gold, ₹25 lakh invested in chit funds and mutual funds, three four-wheelers, a two-wheeler and a tractor.“Assessment of assets is still going on. The document value of the assets is Rs 6 crore, but the market value of the assets unearthed so far would be over Rs 25 crore,” an ACB official said.According to the ACB, Satyanarayana joined govt service in 2005, while his wife is employed as an engineer at Vidyut Soudha.The ACB arrested Satyanarayana following the searches. He will be produced before the ACB special court in Nampally on Friday for judicial remand.
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