Hyderabad, Oct. 14 -- The Telangana vigilance department has placed the properties of the top irrigation engineers allegedly involved in corruption in Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme under the prohibited list in the revenue records; after the Anti-Corruption Bureau's (ACB) searches had revealed disproportionate assets worth hundreds of crores.

Disha Daily reported that as per the officials, the assets of former engineers-in-chief Bhookya Hariram and C Muralidhar Rao, and executive engineer N Sridhar were valued at over Rs 400 crore in the open market.

As the three tainted officials are presently out on bail, the vigilance wing's move is being seen as a way to prevent them from performing any transactions pertaining to those propertie...