Navi Mumbai CIDCO Officer, Wife Booked For 173% Disproportionate Assets Case

Navi Mumbai: A dismissed CIDCO officer and his wife have been booked for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, with an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) probe revealing wealth 173 per cent higher than his legal earnings. The Navi Mumbai ACB has registered a case against Sagar Madanlalji Tapadia and his wife Manisha Tapadia at Kharghar Police Station under relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

Tapadia, a former Class-I officer with CIDCO, is already the prime accused in a bogus employee salary scam. Investigations revealed that he misused his official position to acquire properties worth crores of rupees in his wife’s name.

According to officials, Tapadia was posted as Assistant Estate Officer at CIDCO’s Panvel nodal office in 2019, when he was arrested in a bribery case and subsequently suspended. In 2021, he rejoined as Assistant Personnel Officer and, in 2023, allegedly siphoned off nearly Rs 3 crore by showing 29 fictitious employees on the payroll. CIDCO later registered a case against him and dismissed him from service.

Following orders for an open inquiry into his assets, the ACB scrutinised his income and expenditure during the check period. The probe found that Tapadia’s total legal income stood at Rs 1.12 crore, while he possessed assets worth Rs 3.06 crore, indicating disproportionate assets of Rs 1.94 crore.

Investigators further found that the assets were purchased in the names of both Tapadia and his wife. Manisha Tapadia has been accused of aiding and abetting by holding the assets in her name and allegedly encouraging her husband to accumulate illicit wealth.

“During the course of investigation, it was found that the accused had acquired assets vastly disproportionate to his known sources of income and had routed investments through his wife's name to conceal illicit wealth,” said ACB Deputy Superintendent of Police Dharamraj Sonke.

Based on these findings, a case has been registered under Sections 13(1)(b), 13(2), and 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and further investigation is underway under Sonke’s supervision.

Published on: Friday, April 03, 2026, 12:00 AM IST