The Vigilance has traced assets of Rs1,23,68,899 of Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO), Muribahal and in-charge PEO of Gudighat in Balangir district Sudhir Chandra Thakur.
On the allegation of disproportionate assets case against Thakur, the Vigilance, Sambalpur Division, raided his residential house at the Railway Station Road, Kantabanji, residential house at Palace line, Balangir, residential native house at Mandal, Balangir, brother-in-law’s house, office chamber at Gram Panchayat office, Muribahal, and office chamber at Gram Panchyat Office, Gudighat on Saturday. His assets traced included one double storied building at Palace line, Bolangir Town of Rs34,84,000, one duplex located at Kantabanji town of Rs35,00,000, 11 plots of land located at Kantabanji and its periphery of Rs10,00,000, household articles including electrical/electronic gadgets of Rs5,41,744, deposits in different insurance companies of Rs10,00,000, deposits in different banks of Rs21,38,155, besides gold ornaments of Rs5 lakh, a motor cycle and hard cash of Rs2,29,000. Thakur entered into Government service as VlW in 1986. His wife Srimantini Thakur joined as Shiksha Sahayak in 2005 and was regularised in 2011.