Patna: Patna: The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) on Thursday raided four premises linked to Chandrashekhar Singh, an executive engineer with the Rural Works Department’s (RWD) Investigation & Quality Control Division in Chhapra, in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case involving over Rs 1 crore.The searches led to the recovery of over Rs 5 lakh in cash and about 250 grams of jewellery, while investigators also detected 92 decimals of land in West Bengal allegedly registered in the name of Singh’s wife.VIB DG Jitendra Singh Gangwar said Singh was accused of amassing disproportionate assets worth over Rs 1 crore. “Investigation found a total of 14 immovable properties in the name of the accused, his wife Shweta Kumari and family members, with a total value of over Rs 1 crore. In addition, five movable properties worth over Rs 16 lakh were found. These assets are about 88% more than his total known sources of income,” Gangwar said.An FIR was registered against Singh at the Vigilance police station on Oct 13 under Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1)(b) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, as amended in 2018.The raids were conducted at Singh’s office in Chhapra; flat number 103 at Saryug Vamika Apartment in Patna; his residential house in Lohiya Nagar, Katihar; and a premises in West Bengal.Gangwar said investigators had found 10 deeds relating to 92 decimals of land purchased in 2021 in Singh’s wife’s name in an expensive commercial area of Siliguri. He alleged that Singh had not disclosed the property in his annual property statement.At the time, Singh was posted as an assistant engineer with the Rural Works Department in Forbesganj. Gangwar said more property deeds had been found and were being examined.According to the VIB, the West Bengal land was not mentioned in Singh’s asset declaration submitted to the department for 2025-26.The bureau has also identified a three-bedroom flat in Patna and a two-bedroom flat at Singh’s ancestral residence in Katihar among the assets under scrutiny. Investigators are examining property documents, acquisition costs, present market values, sources of funds and the reasons for the alleged omission from the asset declaration.During the searches, the VIB recovered around Rs 3 lakh in cash from the Patna flat and approximately Rs 2 lakh from the Katihar residence. Around 250 grams of gold and silver jewellery were also recovered from the Katihar premises.Singh served as assistant engineer in Banka from 2014 to 2017, Baisi from 2017 to 2020 and Forbesganj from 2020 to 2024. He subsequently worked at the Quality Control Laboratory in Bhagalpur from February 2024 to February 2025, served as executive engineer in Kishanganj-II from February 2025 to June 2026, and took charge of the Quality Control Division in Chhapra in June 2026.
