Friday, December 12, 2025

Crime-Justice

Bihar EOU raids six locations of cooperative bank officer in Patna, Gopalganj

IANS | December 12, 2025 02:12 PM

PATNA: As part of its ongoing crackdown on corruption in Bihar, the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) was conducting simultaneous raids at six locations in Patna and Gopalganj on Friday.

The locations are linked to Bhavesh Kumar Singh, the Development Officer of the Pataliputra Central Cooperative Bank.

Singh is accused of possessing assets 60.68 per cent disproportionate to his known sources of income.

A DSP-rank officer is leading the operation, which involves scrutiny of income-related documents, property papers, bank accounts, and suspicious financial transactions.

According to ADG EOU Nayyar Hasnain Khan, preliminary investigations confirmed a substantial mismatch 6between Singh’s declared income and the assets he acquired, prompting the extensive raid.

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