The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday carried out searches in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur after booking 1989-batch civil servant couple Alka Rajvanshi Jain and Amit Jain for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets to the tune of ₹5.5 crore, officials said.

Alka Jain, an Indian Revenue Service officer posted as Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) in Udaipur, and her husband Amit Jain, an India Railway Engineering Service officer posted as Group General Manager, Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd., have been named in the FIR. Vikas Rajvanshi, a Chartered Accountant, who allegedly helped them acquire the illegitimate assets has also been booked by the CBI.

The premier investigative agency carried out searches at Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur at the premises of the accused on Friday, officials said.

Based on a tip off from a “reliable source”, the CBI has alleged that the couple acquired “huge movable and immovable assets” to the tune of ₹5.53 crore during the period from April, 2010 to June, 2018 in their own names. The worth of the amassed assets are disproportionate to their known legal sources of income, the CBI has alleged.

The investigating agency alleges that the couple had assets worth over ₹35.14 lakh in 2010, which swelled to a massive amount of ₹8.80 crore in June, 2018 which includes bank balances, vehicles and immovable assets in their own names.

According to the CBI, the civil servant husband and wife duo had earned ₹3.72 crore by way of salary, loan, GPF withdrawal et cetera during the period. In the same period, the couple incurred a total expenditure of ₹80.06 lakh, which includes repayment of the loans availed by them from bank, education, et cetera, thus making the worth of their disproportionate assets ₹5.53 crore, the CBI alleged.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on an early Monday (5 October) morning raided the residence and businesses associated with Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar and his brother D K Suresh, Lok Sabha MP from Bengaluru Rural, in a corruption case as reported by the Hindustan Times.

The CBI simultaneously carried out searches at 14 locations in Karnataka, Delhi and Maharashtra. The raised were conducted with regards to assets amassed during Shivakumar’s tenure as a minister in Karnataka.

After the CBI raid, at their residence located in Doddallahalli village in Kanankapura constituency, supporters of the two leaders came out in support of them. The Congress party called this raid political vendetta and an “insidious game of intimidation”.

The insidious game of intimidation & machinations of Modi-Yeddyurappa duo being executed by a puppet CBI by raiding @DKShivakumar won’t deter us.

CBI should be unearthing the layers of corruption in Yeddyurappa Govt.

But, ‘Raid Raj’ is their only ‘Machiavellian Move’ !
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— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) October 5, 2020

A statement from the central agency reads, “CBI has registered a case against then Minister of Karnataka Government and others on the allegations of acquisition of Disproportionate Assets. Searches are being conducted today at 14 locations including 9 in Karnataka, 4 in Delhi, one in Mumbai. Details will follow,”.

The CBI also raided the Delhi residences of Suresh and the residence of Shivakumar’s close aide Iqbal Hussain. After the Karnataka government gave its go-ahead, the CBI had registered a case against D K Shivakumar and others under the prevention of corruption act.

It all started when the Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into a money-laundering matter came to light, and Shivakumar was also arrested in September last year based on a charge sheet filed by the Income Tax Department against him.

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