EOU unearths assets worth Rs 2 crore amassed by Bihar cop

PATNA: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the state police on Tuesday raided the premises of former SHO of Saran’s Doriganj police station, Sanjay Prasad, and unearthed assets worth more than Rs 2 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The EOU teams, armed with search warrants, raided Prasad’s paternal residence at Samhouta village under the Sathi police station area in Bettiah and a rented flat at Kazi Mohammadpur, Muzaffarpur. This is the seventh DA case of EOU in its ongoing crackdown against illegal sand mining in the state.
Prasad, who is under suspension, is a sub-inspector rank police officer. He had joined service on June 30, 2009. The cop, whose earning from salary is around Rs 60 lakh per month, had amassed excess wealth by conniving with sand smugglers in Saran, as per EOU sources.
The EOU also has inputs that Prasad was laundering money by using bank accounts of several people. EOU sources said documents showing Rs 71 lakh expenditure for buying a plot had been recovered.
“The plot was bought with black money. The actual value on papers is very less. Besides, Rs 2.3 lakh in cash was also recovered from Prasad’s rented flat,” a source said.
Another source said at FIR stage, the SI’s total movable and immovable property was evaluated to be at Rs 49.64 lakh.
Meanwhile, the EOU has also found that Prasad didn’t even touch a single penny from his salary in 2015 and 2016.
EOU ADG Nayyar Hasnain Khan said Prasad had been found involved in laundering money. “He used different sim cards procured in the name of one Laxman Prasad and used them to interact with sand smugglers in Saran,” he said.
The EOU has found a 1,725-square feet plot in the name of the SI’s wife at Chhapra Lodipur Maripur under the Kazi Mohammadpur police station area in Muzaffarpur district. The plot was bought at Rs 29.8 lakh.