As per a search warrant by Special Judge, Vigilance, Bhubaneswar, the houses of Jatni Municipality Assistant Tax Collector Biranchi Narayan Bhattacharya were raided on Tuesday and his movable and immovable assets were calculated at Rs1,04,59,540.
Bhattacharya has nine houses in different places of Jatni market and in Kusumati near Jatni, besides a guest house ‘Parbati lodge’ near Kudiari Mission School, Jatni. He also owns a number of plots in his name as well as in the names of his family members. Bhatacharya also owns several vehicles.
In another development, Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday arrested and court-forwarded Industrial Training Centre (ITC) Principal Pravat Kumar Sahu at Deogarh in Sundargarh district for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs45,000.
Sahu had demanded the bribe from one Sanjukta Naik of Jharakhandal village in Sundargarh district to supply training certificates to the complainant and others. On Naik’s complaint, a trap was laid and Sahu was caught red-handed by the Vigilance officers in his official chamber at Rajamunda, lahunipada in the district.