Rs 5 crore & counting after raids on excise officer

INDORE: Lokayukta police raided houses of Indore deputy excise commissioner Naval Singh Jamod in Indore and Dhar on Friday and unearthed disproportionate assets of more than Rs 5 crore. Raids were launched at Jamod’s house in Scheme-71 locality of Indore at 6 am. Another team raided his two-storey house in Dhar’s Silver Hills Colony.
His legal source of income is pegged at Rs 76 lakh, including salary from 30 years in state government service, senior Lokayukta official said.Raids continued through the night.
More than Rs 33 lakh in cash was found stashed in a suitcase hidden inside a bed, besides gold and silver jewellery of Rs 12 lakh and Rs 15 lakh in 10 bank accounts held by Jamod, his wife, their four daughters and a son.
“Cash seized from Jamod’s house was stuffed in multiple envelopes, which could be bribe money from distillery owners in Malwa-Nimar region. Most of the property was in name of Jamod, his brother and other family members,” the official said.
Sources in Lokayukta said, raids also unearthed three residential plots in Scheme-71 area of Indore, two of which have been used for building the house in which Jamod lives with his family. The team also found a flat (Flat No.104) in a premier building in Scheme-71 in Indore, where he has been posted as deputy excise commissioner for over a year.
The search operation led teams to a two-storied house constructed on 4,800 sq ft area in Silver Hills Colony, Dhar, besides over 50-acre land in Dhulia and Umrali village of Dhar district. Four plots were in the name of Jamod’s daughters at Gayatri Colony in Kukshi-Dhar.
Lokayukta team also stumbled upon documents pertaining to a sugar mill in name of senior excise official’s brother in Jhiri Nimbola village in neighbouring Burhanpur district, besides land, petrol pump, warehouse and gas agency in Alirajpur district. Agricultural land plots in name of Jamod and his brother were unearthed in Bhikhangaon, Barwaha and Jhirniya area of Khargone district.
Lokayukta police are now probing the strong possibility of investments by the excise official in two new shopping complexes opposite C-21 shopping mall at Indore.
Jamod was deputy registrar and district excise officer before he was elevated as deputy excise commissioner. He has four daughters, two of who have done MBBS, while the third daughter is preparing for civil services examinations. The youngest daughter is studying at city’s Daly College. His son is a student at city’s Gujarati School.