Personnel at Satyendra Prasad Singh’s house in Rupaspur in Patna on Friday. Picture by Jai Prakash

Patna, June 28: The economic offences unit (EOU) of the state police today carried out simultaneous raids on the office and the residential premises of two government engineers and detected unaccounted wealth of about Rs 5.5 crore.

Acting on a specific information, sleuths of the recently constituted anti-graft cell conducted raids on the office and the residential premises of Satyendra Kumar Singh, the executive engineer of the road construction department. Hailing from Aurangabad, he is at present posted under Khagaria division.

Raids were also conducted at the office and the residence of water resources department’s assistant engineer Mukesh Kumar Singh, hailing from Nalanda district. He is at present posted in Araria.

The raids today were the 10th operation of the EOU within a month against corrupt public servants. Additional director general of police (law and order) S.K. Bhardwaj said Singh’s office at Khagaria and houses in Patna and his ancestral village in Aurangabad were searched. During the operation, the raiding team seized Rs 21.30 lakh and documents pertaining to huge investments.

According to sources, Singh owned a four-storeyed building at Priyadarshi Nagar near Rupaspur on the Bailey Road in Patna. The house constructed on four cottahs of land is valued at Rs 1 crore. He had purchased 20 acres and 90 decimals of land at Aurangabad for himself and his wife. Its estimated value is Rs 74 lakh.

Singh also constructed a new house at Auragabad. The value of the house was not less than Rs 15 lakh. Besides, he purchased 8.5 decimals of land in Aurangabad town.

Bhardwaj said two luxury cars, including an SUV, were also recovered. Bhardwaj said the executive engineer had been accused of accumulating disproportionate assets worth over Rs 3 crore.

The officer said the EOU officials also conducted raids on the office and the residential premises of Mukesh, the water resources department’s assistant engineer. During the search of his office in Araria and his house in Patna’s Kasturba Colony under the Bahadurpur police station, disproportionate assets worth Rs 2.49 crore were found. The raiding team seized Rs 2.5 lakh and documents related to purchase of property.

Mukesh had purchased several plots and constructed a house in Araria town. He is the owner of a three-storeyed building at Kasturba Colony, valued over Rs 12 lakh. The house in the name of his wife at Araria costs of Rs 30 lakh.

Inspector-general (EOU) Praveeen Vashishtha said: “Two separate cases under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act have been registered against the two public servants.”