Skins, parts of endangered animals found at IAS officer’s home

November 15, 2006

Skins, parts of endangered animals found at IAS officer's home

New Delhi, Nov 14: Several skins and parts of endangered animals

were seized from the residence of an IAS officer here by the Income

Tax Department and a case registered against him, officials said

today.

The IT sleuths found two snow leopard skins, a deer skin and two

horns of antelopes during a raid yesterday at the Rajpur Road

residence of K Narasimha, a 1991 batch IAS officer, they said.

All the items were seized and Narasimha, a secretary of the Mizoram

government, has been handed over to the wildlife department for

interrogation.

The raid at Narasimha's residence was carried out in connection with

the recovery of Rs 66 lakh from his possession at a hotel in

Hyderabad last month.

Narasimha has given a statement before the Director General of

Income Tax (Investigation) in Hyderabad on October 24, maintaining

that he had nothing to do with the cash. He claimed the money was

given to him by Radisson Hotel managing director Ramesh Kapoor to

hand over to one U S Das, an employee of a Bhubaneswar-based private

firm.

IT sleuths had also recovered Rs 2.88 crore in cash from Kapoor at

the Hyderabad airport on October 23.

Officials suspect Narasimha was acting as a " broker " in a land deal

for a hotel project in Hyderabad by the Radisson group.

Meanwhile, the wildlife department has registered a case against

Narasimha under two different sections of the Wildlife Protection

Act of 1972.

The court of Additional Chief Matropolitan Magistrate Sanjeev Jain

today directed Narasimha to file a reply within 15 days. (PTI)

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