MP peon’s house raided: five homes, two cars and a pistol

Acting on an anonymous complaint against Yadav, the Lokayukta Police had served him a notice. The advance intimation may explain why searching his bank locker in the evening did not yield much. However, he could do little about ownership documents of five houses in his and his wife’s names. Details of eight insurance policies were also found during the raid.

“Yadav threw his weight around and was usually accompanied by a couple of musclemen. Most employees in the bank would address him as Bhaisaab,’’ Lokayukta SP Santosh Singh Gaur told The Indian Express.

Yadav, who could not have earned more than Rs 15 lakh from his peon’s salary during his service of more than three decades, also owned one more four wheeler and a licensed pistol. The Lokayukta Police also stumbled upon details of properties not registered in the name of any member of his family.

Kuldeep’s wife Madhubala claimed that she supplemented her husband’s income by giving tuitions. She said her brother is a stamp vendor, and tried to explain the benami registries recovered as those belonging to him.

Yadav is not the first Class IV employee in Madhya Pradesh who has stumped the anti-corruption police with his assets. Similar cases were reported from Ujjain and Indore when the state’s Lokayukta Police began raiding junior-level employees.