Chhattisgarh agriculture secretary B L Agrawal has been found to have a staggering 220 bank accounts and assets worth millions. This was revealed after the income tax department raided his residence here, sources said on Saturday.

The I-T department raided the houses of some IAS officers and businessmen in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh over the past two days. Chhattisgarh’s BJP government is waiting for a final report from the I-T department about Agrawal’s assets to initiate action against him.


I-T officials searched the residence of Agrawal as well as business establishments of his close relatives on Thursday. On Friday, they raided his chartered account Sunil Agrawal’s house and came across documents suggesting that the IAS officer had amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

The officer had at least 220 bank accounts, several of them opened on fake names and addresses, and a few in the names of his domestics. Efforts to contact Agrawal failed. A man who answered his mobile telephone said Agrawal was “busy in a meeting”.

Sources in the income tax department said they were analysing the documents and papers seized. Some documents suggest he might be involved in hawala transactions, the sources said.

Meanwhile, foreign currencies worth Rs 7 lakh have been recovered from the house of senior IAS couple Arvind and Tinu Joshi who were suspended after Rs 3 crore was found from their house in an I-T swoopdown. The currencies include $12,391, £1,790 and € 1,050.

Imported liquor bottles were also recovered during simultaneous raids here at 13 places, including the residence of Joshi’s father and retired DGP H M Joshi from where Rs 1.99 lakh was recovered.

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