Vigilance personnel on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids at eight places including the residence of a Junior Engineer of the Brahmapur Municipal Corporation (BMC) on charges of amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The JE Kanhucharan Das’ residence at Baidyanath Nagar in the city and seven other places were raided by the Vigilance officials.
Immovable and movable assets worth more than Rs 1.11 crore were detected during the searches.
“Raids were conducted at eight places including the residence of junior engineer of Brahmapur Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The places of raid were conducted at hostels run by Das,” a Vigilance official
said.
Separate teams were formed to conduct the simultaneous raids, which were being coordinated by Vigilance DSP Surendranath Panigrahi.
During the raids, the sleuths seized several bank passbooks, savings instruments and some incriminating documents from Das’ possession, sources said.