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The Karnataka Lokayukta Police connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) conducted searches astatine aggregate locations linked to elder serviceman Sardar Sarfaraz Khan, who holds the station of Director successful the Audit Department of Co-operative Societies. He is besides Secretary of the Department of Minority Welfare and Wakf, which is headed by B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan.
The raid followed the allegations that Mr. Khan possessed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
According to a connection released by Lokayukta Police, the officials unearthed movable and immovable assets worthy ₹14.38 crore during searches astatine 13 properties linked to Mr. Khan. The immovable properties see 4 residential houses and 37 acres of cultivation land, collectively valued astatine ₹8.44 crore.
Movable assets recovered during the cognition see currency amounting to ₹66,500, golden ornaments valued astatine ₹2.99 crore, vehicles worthy ₹1.64 crore, and different valuables estimated astatine ₹1.29 crore. The full worth of movable assets is pegged astatine ₹5.93 crore.
Mr. Khan’s sanction had besides popped up successful the archetypal fractional of this twelvemonth erstwhile a purported telephone signaling betwixt him and B.R. Patil went viral. In the recording, the MLA informs Mr. Khan astir the large-scale corruption successful the organisation of houses nether the Rajiv Gandhi Housing Corporation Ltd and is heard alleging that houses were allotted successful speech for bribes.
