Bihar govt seizes 'Corrupt' bureaucrat's home

PATNA: The Bihar government on Sunday confiscated the palatial house of an IAS officer accused of graft.

The house is likely to be turned into a school. The state government is close to completing the formalities for handing over the property to the human resource department and the Cabinet is expected to clear the proposal on Tuesday, government sources said.

The three-storey house on Bailey Road belonged to suspended IAS officer Shiv Shankar Verma. Sleuths of the special vigilance unit had raided it on July 6, 2007, and seized assets worth Rs 1.5 crore.

At today's rate, the house alone would fetch upward of Rs 5 crore. The 1981-batch IAS officer, a secretary in the minor irrigation department, was facing investigations into assets disproportionate to his sources of income.