Hyderabad: The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested Central Crime Station (CCS) ACP Umamaheshwara Rao for allegedly having assets beyond his known legal sources of income on Tuesday. Umamaheswara Rao was the Chief Special Officer for the investigation into the Sahitya Infra case, which is a multi crore fraud.
ACB searches went on for more than 10 hours at Uma Maheswara Rao’s house in Ashok Nagar, and also in a couple of houses of his friends in Hyderabad, CCS office, and in two separate places in Andhra Pradesh.
The ACB officials have identified 17 properties of Rao, which include 5 properties in Ghatkesar. Rs 38 lakh cash was recovered from his residence, in addition to 600 grams of gold. The total value of the seized property was believed to have been around Rs 3 crore.
As part of the search, the officials also reportedly identified Uma Maheswara Rao’s bank lockers and found some crucial property documents as well.
The ACP has been accused of corruption during his earlier tenure as ACP Ibrahimpatnam. In the Sahitya Infra case, there were allegations that money was collected from the accused. There were allegations that he had collecting large sums of money in land disputes by supporting the perpetrators instead of the victims.
ACP Uma Maheswara Rao is also alleged to have threatened BJP leader Charan Chaudhary, and also reportedly with the help of Task Force DCP Radhakishan Rao got Rs 30 lakhs transferred through Charan’s friends.
Radhakishan Rao is one of the main accused in the infamous phone-tapping case, and has been in judicial remand in that case.
The ACB officials who had kept a vigil on Uma Maheswara Rao after they had received complaints against Rao. who has found to have accumulated assets beyond his income.
More details were awaited.
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