Ex-DGP's house to be confiscated

The Special Vigilance court on Wednesday asked the District Magistrate (DM) of Patna to confiscate the property of Bihar’s former director general of police (DGP) Narayan Mishra and open a school in the building premises.

The order was issued by the Special Judge, Vigilance, Ramesh Chandra Mishra, who asked the DM to comply with the directive in the next 30 days.

Mishra is the first IPS official against whom action has been taken ever since the Bihar Special Court Act, 2009, came into force.

His property will not only be attached but a school for poor children be opened much on the lines of the one opened in the house of suspended IAS officer S S Verma last year.

An IPS officer of 1969 batch, Mishra was the DGP during 2004-05. He has been accused of amassing property worth Rs 1.4 crore, which is disproportionate to his known source of income.  The Vigilance sleuths in 2007 had raided his residence in Patna and recovered cash and other valuables worth several lakhs.

Mishra was then posted as Director General (Homeguards). The Vigilance team also carried out simultaneous search operations at his Gaya and Hazaribagh residences.

The hearing in the vigilance court was completed on January 18, 2012. The judge, however, pronounced the verdict on Wednesday holding Mishra, his wife, son and daughter-in-law guilty in the disproportionate assets case.