Kapil Mohan being given rope by sleuths?
What is shocking is that a senior City police officer confessed on condition of anonymity that he was not even aware of the case.
Bengaluru: Are the Lokayukta and city police dragging their feet in senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Kapil Mohan's case? While sources in both the enforcement agencies stated that the case is under investigation (UI); the fact remains that in the last seven months, ever since it came to light in August 2015, there has been no “significant” breakthrough on the money trail in the alleged disproportionate assets (DA) case, which is being probed by the Lokayukta police or the child pornography case, which was registered in November by the City police.
What is shocking is that a senior City police officer confessed on condition of anonymity that he was not even aware of the case. In the Lokayukta, “the investigation is underway,” is all that this newspaper was told on being asked about the progress in the cases.
In August last year the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the illegal cricket betting in the State, on a tip off from the Income Tax Department had raided an empty flat in the upmarket Golden Grand apartment complex in North Bengaluru and seized Rs 4.37 crore in cash and 2.5 kg of gold and diamonds worth crores of rupees. The flat is registered in the name of ‘PSK Finance Solutions Pvt. Ltd,’ which is linked to Mohan’s family and his father Naresh Mohan is one of the directors. The CID after investigation had stated that there was no link between the undisclosed wealth and assets found in the flat and the illegal betting scandal.
The government then handed over the DA case to the Lokayukta police, which in November reportedly seized child pornography in DVDs and an external hard disk from the flat. The disk is also said to contain personal details of Mr. Mohan.
The 1990 batch IAS officer is currently Secretary in the Youth Empowerment and Sports Department and has served as a key official in the Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam irrigation project between 2011 and 2012 and subsequently in Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL) as the managing director. The Lokayukta police are investigating his various tenures to ascertain the money trail and the origin of the wealth in the names of his family and firm.
“It is during this period that PSK reportedly received huge loans from private firms, particularly one, which was allotted contracts of setting up multiple small hydro projects in the State,” charged an official source.
Mohan has meanwhile consistently denied the ownership of the unaccounted wealth and the dubious DVDs to the Lokayukta and City police and has alleged that he is being hounded by vested interests.
“He has a lot to explain on the purchase of 38 carats of diamonds for his wife Dr Ruchi Saxena in a very short span of time besides the property documents, which allegedly pertain to him, his wife and his septuagenarian father,” the officer added.