The Bhubaneswar Special Vigilance Court here sentenced a retired Financial Advisor and Special Secretary of Higher Education, Adwaita Prasad Sahoo, to undergo two years and nine months (33 months) of rigorous imprisonment (RI) after convicting him on charges of accumulating properties disproportionate to his known sources of income. The court convicted Sahoo for possessing disproportionate assets worth Rs33,04,399 to his known sources of income which he could not account for. The court also imposed a fine of Rs3,03,000 on Sahoo in default undergo rigorous imprisonment for further period of four months.
The Vigilance sleuths had raided the former Special Secretary residential rented house in the city, his office at Cuttack. During the search his movable and immovable assets worth of Rs53,81,581 was detected in 2006. Confiscation proceeding of the disproportionate assets is under process.