ACB raids IAS officer, claims to have busted racket in NHRM

Since the tenders were awarded by him, Neeraj K Pawan is a strong suspect," the IG said.

An FIR was registered yesterday by the complainant, following which raids were conducted at 18 premises belonging to all the four.

"The complainant gave Rs 1.5 crore as the bribe amount to Soni in the last few months to get work orders worth Rs 7 crore. During search operation, we recovered a car, a scooty from the IAS officer's home which were purchased by the Soni for the officer," he said.

Besides Rs 2.5 lakh in cash, 4100 USD were also recovered from Pawan's house, the IG claimed.

"We will inform the Enforcement Directorate about the recovery of dollars," he added.

As for other officers, they all are under surveillance but no one has been arrested so far, Singh said.

"We are presently working on the specific complaint and the scope of investigation will be broadened in coming days," he added.

The officer claimed that the ACB sleuths have recovered several important documents, files, electronic devices which have "crucial details about the bribes".

Pawan, an IAS officer of 2003-batch, is presently posted as the Commissioner in the agriculture departmen