Hyderabad: Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials have put Manikonda Electricity Department Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE) Ambedkar on suspension after detecting disproportionate assets in recent raids.

The officer, who was also discharging duties in the Narsingi division, was taken into custody earlier this month and has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Raids reveal crores of assets

In the raids, ACB officials recovered more than Rs 2 crore in cash from the house of Ambedkar’s purported benami. The investigators also seized several high-end properties such as a new building in Serilingampally, six residential plots in Hyderabad, a farmhouse on the outskirts of the city, and agricultural lands, reported ABN .

Official sources said Ambedkar had also float

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