PATNA: A special vigilance
court in Patna on Wednesday ordered confiscation of the disproportionate asset (DA) worth around Rs 1 crore of animal and fisheries resource department's former special secretary Devendra Prasad.
The assets include a 2.5-kattha plot with a three-storey house on it at Beur in Patna and another 2-kattha plot and a single-storey house at Vijay Nagar in Banka besides a car registered in the name of Prasad's daughter Kumari Seema.
The state's Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) had lodged the DA case against Prasad and his family members on November 20, 2013.
Special court-II judge Vipul Sinha has ordered Prasad to hand over the documents of the properties to the Patna DM within a month, failing which the properties would be confiscated forcibly.
Special vigilance public prosecutor (PP) Rajesh Kumar told TOI the SVU had unearthed disproportionate assets worth Rs 1 crore against Prasad's likely savings of Rs 31.81 lakh.
"Prasad was found during the investigation to have illegally taken a second wife in Banka and amassed disproportionate property in her name too," Kumar said and added Prasad's first wife, Dulari Prasad, and her three daughters residing in Patna were not aware of it.
