Acting on the allegation of acquisition of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income by former Horticulture Additional Director, Bhubaneswar Ramesh Chandra Das, Vigilance officers conducted simultaneous searches on his houses at four places and office room of his spouse at Cuttack and detected assets worth Rs 1,92,71,600.
The assets include two double-storied buildings worth Rs 99,60,400 and a triple-storied building of Rs 39,03,817 in Cuttack, a double-storied building at native Ersama village in Jagatsinhpur district worth Rs 8,34,435, four plots in Cuttack and Khordha of Rs 3,46,218, vehicles worth Rs 10,75,000, bank and insurance deposits Rs 21,93,607, gold and silver ornaments of Rs 1,82,340 and cash and household articles of Rs 7, 75,720.Besides, Vigilance officers arrested Assistant Executive Engineer Sanjog Meher of NH Sub-Division, Khariar Road in Nuapada district for accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000.
Meher had demanded the bribe from complainant Susant Kollohars in order to issue a site verification report in his sister-in-law for opening of a filling station on roadside of NH-353 at Gohirapadar under Komna tehsil.
In another case, Vigilance sleuths arrested Purnananda Dhal, Headmaster of Gopabandhu High School, Hatabharandi in Nabarangpur, for accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from one Induliram to make correction in the school leaving certificate of his daughter.