Patna, Feb. 4: The state government has named 26 public servants, including BJP MLA from Katoria and former deputy commissioner of the excise department Sone Lal Hembrum, who have accumulated assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.

The government has also forwarded the copy of its declaration to special vigilance courts in Patna, Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur. The vigilance investigation bureau has sent the copy to special public prosecutors to file a confiscation case against the accused.

Today’s declaration came following a vigilance investigation into the assets of these public servants and their families. Names of eleven family members of Hembrum are also in the list.

The MLA’s Patna residence was searched by the Income Tax department on November 27, 1997 and documents of movable and immovable properties of over Rs 2.67 crore was found. The bureau had lodged an FIR against Hembrum and his 11 family members in September 2000. The chargesheet was filed on October 10, 2007.

During investigation, the vigilance officials stumbled upon documents related to Hembrum’s building at Patel Nagar, Patna on four cottahs. Apart from that, he had purchased 47 cottahs (in six plots) in Ranchi.

Hembrum was an excise inspector in 1972.