The Vigilance police on Thursday raided multiple places related to Deputy Director, Factories & Boilers, Bhubaneswar, Ramesh Chandra Behera over alleged possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The raids were conducted simultaneously at Behera’s residential house at Vipul Garden, Ghatikia here, his in-laws’ house at Pilgrim Road, Cuttack, parental house at Pampalo, Korei, Jajpur, a plot at CDA in Cuttack with a room, office chambers in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack and a house located in Pondicherry, sources said.
Till last reports came in, the raids were underway and the total value of the official’s movable and immovable properties was yet to be calculated.
In another incident, Vigilance officials on the day arrested Rajkanika PS ASI Baisnab Charan Behera for taking a bribe of Rs 5,000 from Dibakar Sethy of Gokarneswar village to delete his and his family members’ names from the charge-sheet in a land dispute case.
The officers laid a trap and caught ASI Behera red-handed.
Vigilance officials also arrested a Data Entry Operator working at the Drugs Inspector office in Jagatsinghpur district for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 to process the file for issuance of a drugs licence.
On a complaint lodged by one Suvendu Swain from Badalahanga village, the sleuths laid a trap and caught Tapan Kumar Sethi red-handed while accepting the bribe.
On the day, the Vigilance police arrested Jharsuguda district’s Brajarajnagar Executive Officer Dillip Patel for possessing assets worth Rs 2,85,28,912 disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Besides, Dhenkanal Cooperative Society’s Sub-Assistant Registrar Bidyadhar Behera was arrested for possessing assets worth Rs 1,39,36,034.
Vigilance officers had conducted raids on houses of Patel and Behera on Thursday.