Bihar Vigilance raids Rural Works Department engineer in disproportionate assets case

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The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) on Thursday (October 15, 2026) conducted simultaneous raids at Rural Works Department’s Executive Engineer’s four locations in Chhapra, Patna, Katihar and Darjeeling in connection with a case of amassing disproportionate assets (DA) to his known sources of income.

The Bureau has registered a DA case against Rural Works Department’s Executive Engineer Chandra Shekhar Singh whose four locations have been raided and searched. Mr. Singh is posted at the Department’s Quality Testing Office in Chhapra, the headquarters of Saran district. 

A special vigilance team searched the Department’s office in Chhapra, Flat No. 103 at Vamika Apartment on Jagdev Path in Patna, his residential house in Lohiya Nagar, Katihar, and a private property in the Phansidewi police station area of Darjeeling district in West Bengal. The raids continued until late evening.