Assets worth Rs 2.22 crore were detected by Vigilance sleuths from the houses of Suresh Chandra Patra, Assistant Engineer, Drainage Sub-Division No II, Digapahandi in Ganjam district during raids on Tuesday.
The assets included a four-storied building at Bapuji Nagar Medical Bank Colony, 3rd lane, Brahmapur and a flat with a parking place in Utkal Royal Residence, Goutam Nagar, Bhubaneswar, totally worth Rs 91.61 lakh.
In another instance of corruption, Pratyush Kumar Rath, Welfare Extension Officer, Kantamal block in Boudh district, was caught red-handed by Vigilance officers in his office room while he was accepting bribe of Rs 500 as a second instalment. The bribe amount was recovered from his pant pocket.
Rath had demanded bribe of Rs 1,000 from Durman Bibhar of village Rakdol under the Kantamal police station to process the file for grant of ex-gratia of Rs 20,000 under the National Family Benefit Scheme in favour of his wife, who expired in February this year in a bus accident.
Rath had already taken Rs 500 in advance out of the demand amount,