Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) teams raided the residence of Nune Sridhar, a senior irrigation engineer involved in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP), unearthing disproportionate assets worth approximately ₹60 crore.

HYDERABAD: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) teams on Wednesday conducted searches at the residence of a senior irrigation department engineer who worked on the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP), and unearthed assets worth nearly 60 crore disproportionate to his known sources of income. The engineer was subsequently arrested, while the searches are still ongoing.The searches come on a day when former CM and BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao was questioned by the PC Ghose Commission of Inquiry into alleged irregularities in the conception and implementation of KLIP.ACB officials said a disproportionate assets case was registered on June 9 against Nune Sridhar, executive engineer, Irrigation and Command Area Development (CAD) department, for acquiring assets by indulging in unlawful practices and dubious means during his service at City Range-2 in Hyderabad under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Sridhar was earlier involved in KLIP and used to supervise the Gayathri pump house in Ramadugu, Karimnagar.Searches were conducted at 14 places, including Sridhar’s office in Karimnagar, his house at Malakpet, and family and relatives’ houses in Karimnagar, Warangal, and Hyderabad. The properties unearthed included a villa in Tellapur, a 4,500 sq ft flat in Shaikpet, three flats in Karimnagar, commercial space in Ameerpet, four-storied buildings at Malakpet in Hyderabad and in Warangal, an independent building in Karimnagar, 16 acres of agricultural land in Warangal, Karimnagar, and Ranga Reddy districts, 19 plots in Hyderabad, Warangal, and Karimnagar, two cars, gold ornaments, and bank deposits, all worth about 60 crore.The ACB arrested the accused from Karimnagar and brought him to Hyderabad, where a DA case was registered against him.