A post master of Aharapada branch post office in Bhadrak district was awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for misappropriation of deposits.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Debadatta Patnaik, Bhadrak, convicted Kamalakanta Nayak under Section 409 of IPC and sentenced him to seven years rigorous imprisonment in a 2016 postal deposit embezzlement case. The convict was also slapped with Rs10,000 fine failing which he will undergo one year rigorous imprisonment. Nayak was accused of embezzling Rs 35 lakh deposited by 185 customers at the Aharapada branch post office.
The then Bhadrak Circle Postal Superintendent Paramananda Sahoo came to know about the massive misappropriation of postal deposits during an audit conducted in the year 2016 following which a written complaint was lodged at the Bhadrak rural police station. The accused was arrested on August 23, 2017.