Patna:

Chief secretary Anjani Kumar Singh has Rs 25,000 cash and Rs 4.25 lakh in bank deposits but does not own a car. His wife Poornima Shekhar Singh is the owner of 600 grams gold worth Rs 18 lakh, diamonds worth Rs 4 lakh, a flat in Delhi’s Dwarka worth Rs 50 lakh and non-agricultural land worth Rs 1.07 crore.

Principal secretary (home) Amir Subhani owns a flat in Bailey Road and has over Rs 8 lakh in bank and PPF accounts. He, too, does not own any vehicle, though his wife Dr S Yasmeen is the owner of a Maruti 800 Alto car (2013 model) and jewellery worth Rs 11 lakh received at the time of marriage. She also owns a flat in Bailey road along with a two bigha ancestral plot in Patna district.

The asset details for financial year 2015-16 have been uploaded on the websites of the respective departments.

Principal secretary (finance) Ravi Mittal has 2,500 cash, Rs 7.34 lakh in bank deposits and Rs 5.96 lakh in bonds and debentures, while his wife owns bonds and shares worth over Rs 10 lakh. Neither own any land but Mittal owns a house in Noida worth Rs 1 crore. His wife owns jewellery worth Rs 20 lakh.

DGP P K Thakur, who paid an income-tax of Rs 4.92 lakh (assessment year 2015-16), has Rs 2,000 in cash. He has bank deposit totalling Rs 19.13 lakh, ancestral land and house in Madhepura besides a flat each in Patna and Noida. His wife Poonam Thakur owns 300 grams gold jewellery worth Rs 10 lakh and Rs 4.74 lakh in bank deposit and mutual funds.

Principal secretary (industries) S Siddharth has Rs 17 lakh in bank accounts and Rs 14.94 lakh in shares and bonds. Though he has only Rs 3,000 in cash, he owns a camera and a handycam worth Rs 25,000 each besides a flat in New Delhi and a plot in Telangana. He has bank loans of Rs 45 lakh.

Former City SP, Patna, Shivdeep W Lande has no cash in hand but has bank deposits worth Rs 10.22 lakh. While neither he nor his wife Mamta Vijay Shivtare own any land, house or vehicle, Mamta owns 32 grams gold and 60 grams silver ornaments.

Former Patna SSP Vikas Vaibhav, presently AIG (Training), has Rs 18 lakh in bank deposits and Rs 20,000 in cash. His is perhaps one of the most detailed declarations. While he or his wife don’t own any land, he has share in ancestral house in Begusarai and Noida and flats in Delhi and Greater Noida.

DIG (central range) Shalin’s declaration shows that his wife owns three plots of land and three flats. She also owns 30 tolas of gold whereas he has only five tolas. He has Rs 98,000 in his salary account and Rs 5,000 cash.

The assets declared by top Bihar ‘babus’ and cops make several interesting revelations, including the fact that spouses of most of them seem to be financially better off. While some bureaucrats and policemen have only a few thousand bucks in cash, others don’t own any vehicle or house.