A Government Officer was arrested last night of 18 Dec. by the Anti Corruption Bureau of Udaipur, for possessing assets disproportionate to officer’s income.

Mohan Lal Meena, native of Bhilwara, presently residing in Sector-3, Hiran Magri is a CTO (Commercial Tax Officer) posted in Udaipur. Meena has been arrested by ACB in relation to a case registered against him in 2007, for receiving bribery of Rs. 25,000 and possession of assets worth Rs. 75 lacs, an amount disproportionate to the income of the then ACTO.

In the year 2007, when Meena’s house was raided by ACB, an amount of Rs. 22 lacs in cash and few property ownership documents were recovered. Mohan Meena was though suspended for a term of 3 years, in order to save himself from further prosecution, he declared on a back dated Stamp-paper that his house in Hiran Magri was sold to two of his friends, Jamnesh Kumar Dupper resident of Dhan Mandi and Niranjan sahu resident of Nara Khara.

According to ACB, Mohan Lal Meena, in Dec. 2007 itself prepared another undated Stamp-paper and refuted the previous Stamp-paper of declaration of sale of his Hiran Magri house. Disclosure of this information led to Meena’s arrest last night.

Later, in 2010 when Mohan Lal Meena’s suspension was taken back, he was promoted from ACTO to CTO. Last night ACB arrested Meena from the same house in Hiran Magri, for possession of assets disproportionate to his income. In 2007, the total assets including cash possessed by Meena valued Rs. 75 lacs, Rs. 51 lacs more than the capacity of a Government Employee of his position. Mohan Lal Meena will be presented in the court tomorrow.