Ten days after making a rich haul of unaccounted wealth in raids on a prominent city businessman who is close to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his family, income-tax officials recovered documents of property worth over a crore owned by the CM's private assistant Harish Singh, a class III employee.

Harish is the younger brother of Bharat Singh, a BJP supporter and contractor, whose premises were also raided along with the raid on businessman Dilip Suryavanshi on June 20. Another pro-BJP businessman whose premises were raided on that day is Sudhir Sharma.

The raids had led to the seizure of unaccounted income to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore and exposed politician, bureaucrat businessmen nexus running in Madhya Pradesh and the states failure to check the staggering level of corruption in various departments.

Documents of property owned by Harish were found during the raid on Bharats premises. "Some of the documents of properties recovered from the residence of Bharat Singh are in the name of Harish Singh. The documents show that the properties were bought between 2006 and 2009," a top IT department official said.

Harish Singh is a private assistant to Chouhan for the past several years, a close aide of the CM said. "If I am not wrong, Harish became his assistant after Chouhan got elected to the 10th Lok Sabha from Vidisha constituency," he added.

Harish later joined the CM secretariat after Chouhan became chief minister by replacing Babulal Gaur in November 2005.

Between 2006 and 2009 Harish Singh bought a duplex house 42/3 C, Saket Nagar, which is a prime location, a 2100 sq feet plot in Bawadia Kala Rohit Nagar, where construction is underway and a 1,500 square feet plot in Bagh Sewania at another prime location in the state capital, said IT officials. The present cost of the properties was estimated to be over Rs 1 crore, sources added.

The seizure of documents from the house of a class III employee and private assistant of CM has left his peers in the secretariat dumbstruck.

"We earn a monthly salary of Rs 16,000. The TDS on Harishs annual income is shown to be somewhere between Rs 1.50 lakh and Rs 2 lakh during the period," said a source in the CMs secretariat.

Its not possible for a Class III employee to purchase such costly properties in Bhopal in just three years, he added.

The June 20 raids created ripples in the Mantarlaya (state secretariat), in the chief minister secretariat and in the Deendayal Parisar, state headquarters of the BJP as Dilip is close to several RSS leaders including Chouhan and his wife Sadhna Singh while Sudhir Sharma is a close confidante of culture minister Laxmikant Sharma.

Even twelve days after the raid, the IT officials are scanning the computers, laptops, pen drives and other files. The officials are yet to open all the remaining bank lockers, including those of Suryavanshi and Sharma.