Ahmedabad, August 13, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Former Anand Resident Additional Collector Ketki Vyas has been arrested in a disproportionate assets case and sent to judicial custody after the Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) alleged that she accumulated assets worth Rs 3.56 crore beyond her known sources of income.
Vyas, a suspended Gujarat Administrative Service Class-I officer, was arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch from her sister’s residence in Shela after the Gujarat High Court rejected her anticipatory bail plea. The Crime Branch had assisted the ACB in locating her before handing her over to the anti-corruption agency.
The ACB began investigating the case in 2023 following a complaint concerning Vyas’ assets and financial transactions. The agency has alleged that the disproportionate assets represented 68.84 per cent of her known lawful income.
The investigation covers the period from April 1, 2012, to March 31, 2023. During this period, Vyas received around Rs 78.23 lakh in salary, while investigators examined her income, expenditure, properties, investments and financial transactions.
The ACB has assessed her legitimate income at around Rs 5.17 crore and the alleged disproportionate assets at Rs 3.56 crore. Investigators have also scrutinised around 24 bank accounts belonging to Vyas and her family members, alleging that various amounts were deposited into them.
The probe covers land, flats, a bungalow, a shop, vehicles and bank deposits. Properties under scrutiny reportedly include flats in Ahmedabad’s Bodakdev and Science City Road areas, a bungalow at Tragad and a shop at Viramgam. Investigators have also examined properties allegedly purchased or held in the names of her parents. A sealed flat was to be opened and searched in Vyas’ presence as part of the investigation.
After being produced before the Special ACB Court at Lal Darwaja, Ahmedabad, Vyas was remanded to judicial custody and subsequently taken to Sabarmati Central Jail.
ACB Deputy Director Haresh Mewada said the agency did not seek police remand as the investigation was largely documentary in nature.
“The sealed flat had to be opened and searched in Vyas’ presence, and certain questions also had to be put to her, both of which had been completed,” he said.
Mewada said the remaining investigation primarily involved documents and did not require Vyas’ continued custodial presence.
Earlier Spy-Camera Case
Vyas joined government service as a Chief Officer in 2001. She later became a Mamlatdar after clearing the Gujarat Public Service Commission examination and subsequently served as Deputy Collector and Additional Collector.
She was serving as Anand Resident Additional Collector when she was arrested in a separate 2023 case involving then Anand Collector D.S. Gadhvi. Vyas and two others were accused of installing spy cameras in the Collector’s office and allegedly using compromising footage to threaten Gadhvi over the clearance of land-related files.
Police had alleged that the cameras were procured and installed as part of a conspiracy to record the Collector and use the footage for extortion. The state government subsequently suspended Vyas following her arrest in that case.
Investigators had also alleged that evidence, including computer hard drives, was destroyed and later recovered.
The Supreme Court on June 30, 2026, stayed further proceedings against Vyas in the spy-camera case and issued notice returnable on August 24. That matter is separate from the present disproportionate assets investigation.
The ACB is now continuing its probe into the alleged accumulation of assets disproportionate to Vyas’ known sources of income, including the properties, bank accounts, investments and other financial records identified during the investigation.
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