K’jhar ex-Executive Engineer gets jail for graft
Cuttack: Sadananda Nayak, ex-Executive Engineer, PHD, RWS&S Division, Keonjhar, was on Saturday sentenced by the Special Judge, Vigilance, Keonjhar, to undergo simple imprisonment for one year and pay a fine of Rs5,000, in default of payment of the fine to undergo SI for two months more on corruption charge. He had demanded and accepted bribe of Rs1,000 from Nanlal Samje of Keonjhar town to give him a prescribed form for water connection to his newly-constructed house.
B’swar man held for beating, terrorising wife
Baleswar: The Raibania police of Baleswar district have arrested a man for assaulting his wife brutally and threatening her to kill by flaunting a pistol. The police said arrested Baburam Mahanta (45) of Dhangheri village was torturing Janjali (35) for dowry and other domestic disputes. He was booked under several Sections of the Dowry Prohibition Act and Arms Act following seizure of a country-made revolver and three live cartridges from him. The accused, besides beating her, also had hit her on her head causing grievous injury, while she protested the former’s returning home late at night and having extramarital relationship.
Five dacoits awarded 4.5-yr RI in K’pada
Kendrapada: District and Sessions Judge Bijay Ketan Mohanty on Friday convicted five persons in a dacoity case and awarded them four
and a half years of rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs17,000. These persons had made an attempt to commit an armed dacoity at a doctor’s house in Medical Colony behind the District Headquarters Hospital on July 13, 2004 night. They are Bijay Gochhayat (21), Bhabani Guru (21), Jyotibhusan Mekap (21), Rajkishore Bej (21) and Sk Salamat (23).
Vajpayee birth anniversary observed at Ali
Ali: The 89th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was observed here on Thursday in front of laxmi Baraha Temple being presided over by BJP Ali block president Karunakar Tripathy. BJP district vice-president Bhakta Bandhu Mishra, Braja Sundar Bhutan, Anata Kumar Rath, Badal Nanda, Promad Kumar Ray, Susanta kumar Dikshit and many other leaders of 32 gram panchayats under the block attended the programme and prayed for Vajpayee’s long life.