Besides six houses, four cars, the raiding teams stumbled upon a currency counting machine at Vinod Lahiri’s Indranagar home.

Vinod’s wife Vidya is also a government doctor but the case of assets disproportionate to the known sources of income was registered only against him. DSP O P Sagoria told The Indian Express that the couple owned between 100 and 150 bigha land, a petrol pump, two warehouses, a cold storage and a puffed rice unit. Their life’s earnings, excluding expenses, would total less than Rs 80 lakh. Vinod joined government service 22 years ago.

The doctor duo had been suspended a year and a half ago, when they were attached to the government hospital in Nagda, after public protests. Locals had accused the couple of forcing patients to get treatment at their private clinic instead of the government hospital. They had been attached to the office of joint director (health) in Ujjain.

The couple owned two houses each in Ujjain, Indore and Nagda. Though the raiding teams refrained from officially estimating the couple’s total worth, they said the couple was the biggest catch in recent times.