Vigilance officials conducted a raid in the house and office of Senior Inspector of Mines Biswanath Sahu here on Saturday and recovered cash worth Rs 11.40 lakh from his house. His properties and deposits were estimated to be over crores of rupees.
Raids were conducted in as many as four locations, including at his residence at Chhend, his office at DDM Rourkela, his ancestral house in Angul district and his wife’s office at Rourkela. Significantly, Sahu’s wife Sasmita Mohanty works as Regional Director of Central Board of Workers Education, Rourkela.
Rs 20.10 lakh was detected in the couple’s savings bank accounts, besides fixed deposits of Rs 3.65 lakh, Rs 6.5 lakh in several mutual funds and Rs 4.6 lakh in lIC, said DSP Vigilance P Sethi.
The Chhend house is estimated to be about Rs 53.85 lakh whereas their household articles and vehicles were worth about Rs 11 lakh. Similarly, gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 5.5 lakhs were found, Sethi added.
Meanwhile, the Vigilance court in Bhubaneswar on Saturday allowed Vigilance sleuths to take arrested crorepati Phulbani mining officer Prafulla Kumar Sethi on two-day remand for further interrogation from Sunday.
The State probe agency had prayed to the court to take Sethi on a five-day remand.