Summary:
After the enquiry, the ACB gathered prima facie evidence and it was then the high court ordered the ACB to register a case. The judge is presently in ACB custody. Disproportionate assets worth 3 crore were discovered during the searches.Since morning, sleuths conducted searches at the residences of 54-year-old Prasad at Gaddiannaram in Saroornagar and Izzathnagar in Kondapur. Prasad was booked under section 13(1)(b) r/w 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act of 1988.The ACB sleuths said the searches will continue and two bank lockers of the accused judge would be opened on Thursday. “Further, it was found that the accused judge along with his family had made several tours abroad, incurring huge expenditure,” an official release issued by ACB director general J Purnachandra Rao said..