A day after registering cases against Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s brother Soumendra Pradhan and four others for black marketing of lPG cylinders, the Vigilance police on Tuesday registered four more criminal cases against nine persons, including proprietors and other employees of errant gas agencies in the State.
Cases were filed against Md Sahabuddin and Nagama Sirin, both proprietors of Neulpur Indane Gramin Vitrak in Jajpur, Ajit Kumar Mishra, proprietor and Babulal Sahoo, manager of Angul Boinda-based Maa Durga Indane Gas, Umesh Chandra Gupta and T Arun Kumar Patra, proprietors of Modern living HP Gas Agencies in Balugaon, Khordha and Krushna Chandra Das, secretary, Dasarathi Behera, president and Kishore Kumar Barik, store keeper-cum-junior salesman, of Bhubaneswar Wholesale Cooperative Society-Alaka.
During the surprise inspections of the anti-graft body on December 12, 2016, Saturday, Mondayand Tuesday, the premises of the gas agencies, including their stock position and
various registers/documents were inspected and scrutinised.
“After due verification and on availability of prima facie evidence of illegality and irregularities found in respect of their stock position of cylinders and registers/records, cases have been registered today while scrutiny of records in respects of other gas agencies is continuing,” said a Vigilance Directorate communiqué.