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Dhanbad, April 30: The local unit of the anti-corruption wing of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing into the disproportionate assets case against coal official Arun Kumar Charan Pahari, today seized several documents and jewellery.
The sleuths failed to trace his gun, though.
Raiding Pahari’s lockers in the main branch of the State Bank of India here, the sleuths seized 860 g of silver jewellery, 300 g of gold ornaments and 50 pieces of silver coins. They also came across investment papers worth about Rs 8 lakh while searching a bungalow in Sijua.
Significantly, the investigating agency had seized the keys of the lockers and sealed boxes while raiding Pahari’s residences on April 26.
The whereabouts of the revolver has put the investigators on their toes, though.
The gun’s licence was seized from a guesthouse in Singrauli where Pahari used to reside. During interrogation, the coal official reportedly said the revolver was in the locker in the bank here. But the CBI could not locate the gun there. Later, Pahari said the gun was at his parental house in Nawada, Bihar.
CBI officials said the revolver would be seized shortly.
Pahari, a chief general manager (CGM) in Northern Coalfields Limited, has been under the scanner for accumulating wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. The CGM was posted in Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh. The residence the CBI had raided in Sijua was where Pahari was residing while working with the Bharat Coking Coal Limited as the general manager for Katras area.
On the progress of the investigation, a senior CBI official said it would be a time-taking task for the agency to scrutinise all the documents.
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