In addition to various Behera’s palatial buildings, the investigators also traced gold ornaments weighing 341 gm and deposits to the tune of Rs 45 lakh. The Vigilance officials also confiscated Rs 2 crore cash from Behera’s bank lockers and Rs 2 lakh from his Patia residence.
While announcing the order, the judge said that the TN Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy had amased 64.9 per cent assets more than his known sources of income.
Coming as a setback for the Congress leader, the Karnataka HC dismissed the petition filed by DK Shivakumar seeking quashing of the CBI's disproportionate assets case against him
Hema Meena, the woman contractual engineer whose sprawling farmhouse was raided by Lokayukta officials in Madhya Pradesh, was earning a salary of Rs 30,000