Vigilance sleuths, acting on an allegation of acquisition and possession of disproportionate assets on Monday, conducted simultaneous searches on houses and office room of Balangir district’s Tusura lift Irrigation Junior Engineer Satyanarayan Panigrahi and detected assets worth Rs1,15,19,000 in his possession.
Panigrahi’s residential house at at Patnagarh, office room at Tusura, brother’s house at Patnagarh and paternal house at Balangir were searched on the strength of a search warrant.
The assets detected in Panigrhai and his family members names include a double-storey building worth Rs30 lakh, deposits of Rs25 lakh, gold ornaments of Rs10 lakh, 39 plots worth Rs40 lakh, hard cash of Rs69,000, household articles worth Rs4.5 lakh and an old house purchased at Patnagarh at Rs5 lakh.
Besides, Panigrahi has so far spent Rs20 lakh towards educational expenses. Search was still on, said an official release.
In another case, Vigilance officers arrested Mayurbhanj district’s Saraskana tehsil Pokharia RI Anima Ghosh for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs10,000 from Kamal lochan Sahu of Saraskana for participation of joint property and demarcation of his land.
Complainant Sahu alleged that he had filed a partition suit of joint property at the tehsil earlier. The Tahasildar directed the RI to demarcate the land and submit enquiry report. For this, RI Ghosh demanded Rs10,000 as bribe.
Vigilance sleuths laid a trap and caught Ghosh red-handed taking the bribe money from the complainant. The investigation was still on.