After six months of close watch on him, IAS officer and Orissa Small Industries Corporation (OSIC) Managing Director (MD) Partha Sarathi Mishra came under the net of the Vigilance police which seized a whooping `2,14,750 cash from his possession which he allegedly collected the money illegally on Wednesday.
In the evening, acting on a tipoff that Mishra was about to leave for his residence by his Government vehicle after collecting the money from different persons, Vigilance officers of the Cuttack Division intercepted him in front of his office in Cuttack to ascertain the genuineness of the information.
During a search, a sum of Rs 2,14,750 was found in a closed cover from Mishra’s possession. On preliminary interrogation, he failed to explain the source of the money.
later, separate Vigilance teams raided his residential Government quarter located at Unit-II in Bhubaneswar, his residential house at Bajrakabati Road, Cuttack and his office chamber at Khapuria, Cuttack simultaneously. Till filing of the report, the searches were on.
Vigilance Director Dr RP Sharma said Mishra was under close watch since last six months as there were several corruption charges against him.