Author: Express News Service, Patna
Publication: Indian Express
Dated: August 4, 2012
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/exbihar-dgps-building-sealed-to-house-school/983517/0

The Patna police has confiscated a three-storey building of former Bihar DGP Narayan Mishra after the Patna High Court recently upheld a special Vigilance court’s order to confiscate his property under the provisions of the Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009.

The law allows the state government to confiscate an accused’s property during the trial stage. Mishra has been facing a disproportionate assets (DA) case amounting to Rs 1.4 crore.

Patna additional collector Suresh Sharma said: “We have found old furniture at the house. We got seven tenants to vacate the house.”

The current market value of the building is over Rs 2 crore. The Patna administration is likely to shift a school in the building located in the Ved Nagar area of Rukunpura village in Danapur. The state government is already running schools from seized buildings of suspended IAS officer S S Verma and suspended treasury clerk Girish Kumar at Patna.

Patna administration officials on Thursday evening visited ‘Madhukunj’ and ordered tenants living on two floors to vacate the premises immediately. The officials then took possession of the building and sealed the house.

On Wednesday, the government had confiscated two plots, each measuring 5,440 sq feet in area, belonging to the former DGP, in the Nepali Nagar area of Digha near the state capital. Sharma said the government would now take the help of the Jharkhand government to confiscate two more plots — of 20 decimal and 1.5 decimal — belonging to Mishra at Hazaribagh.

This is the fifth case in which the Vigilance court has ordered confiscation of property under the provisions of the 2009 Act.