Flats, Farms & Fortunes: Transparency Drive Unmasks Property Empire of Haryana’s Civil Servants

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Chandigarh: Property disclosures of senior IAS and IPS officers in Haryana have revealed a wide range of immovable assets, including flats in cities like Gurugram, Delhi, and Panchkula, along with ancestral land, mango orchards, and commercial properties. These annual disclosures are mandatory under the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, to promote transparency and accountability in public service.

One of the most notable declarations is from Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, who owns a half-share in ancestral land measuring 2.311 hectares in Udhampur village, Uttar Pradesh. The land includes a mango orchard and provides an annual income of ₹3.25 lakh. Rastogi also holds a half-share in a residential plot in Panchkula worth ₹3.3 crore, along with a flat in Gurugram valued at ₹1.7 crore, jointly owned with his wife. This flat generates monthly rental income of ₹54,450.

DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor has listed land in Punjab’s Phagwara and Haryana’s Yamunanagar, all inherited. His wife owns a house in Sector 82, Gurugram, purchased in 2003 for ₹4 crore, which now yields ₹1.6 crore per year. Another flat in Gurugram’s Sector 111 is currently valued at ₹2 crore. Kapoor also recently bought a ₹3 crore apartment in Panchkula and declared ownership of a two-kanal plot in Bathinda.

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Another senior bureaucrat, Sudhir Rajpal, owns properties across Gurugram, Panchkula, Kolkata, Hisar, and Delhi. His Gurugram house, purchased in the 1980s, is now worth ₹7.5 crore and earns ₹18 lakh annually. He also owns a 3BHK flat in Kolkata generating ₹3 lakh per year and another flat on Golf Course Road, Gurugram, purchased for ₹2 crore, generating ₹6 lakh annually. In Hisar, he holds land purchased from a cooperative society, as well as a flat under construction in Panchkula worth ₹1.14 crore.

Sumita Misra, additional chief secretary (home), owns a builder floor in Hauz Khas, New Delhi, valued at ₹3.51 crore and generating ₹27.9 lakh in rent per year. She also owns properties in Chandigarh and Lucknow, including plots inherited from her mother, and a residential flat bought for ₹25.25 lakh in 2010.

Anand Mohan Sharan, another senior IAS officer, disclosed a Gurugram flat worth ₹1.25 crore, bought in 1995 for ₹10.5 lakh through a housing society.

Raja Sekhar Vundru owns land in Hyderabad and a house in Greater Noida worth ₹1 crore, built with a government loan.

Among IPS officers, Manoj Yadava owns 32 bighas of land in Aligarh, half inherited and half gifted, worth ₹32 lakh. He also jointly owns a commercial shop in Greater Noida worth ₹1 crore.

Mohammad Akil, DG (prisons), disclosed ₹7.5 crore worth of agricultural land and a house valued at ₹50 lakh in Aligarh—both inherited.

Desh Raj Singh, peer of DGP Kapoor, owns 30 acres of land worth ₹10.25 crore in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, and flats in Gurugram with his wife, ADGP Mamta Singh. Together, their properties on Golf Course Road are valued at over ₹4.7 crore.

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