Acting on an allegation of possession of disproportionate assets, Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday conducted simultaneous searches on houses and office of Subarnapur district’s Dunguripali block VAW Madhaba Tripathy and detected assets worth Rs1,07,02,901 in his and his family members’ names.
Tripathy’s residential houses at Dunguripali and langarkata, godown/store at langankata, pesticide shop at Dunguripali market and office chamber at Dunguripali were searched by the Vigilance officers on the strength of a search warrant, informed an official release.
The detected assets include a double-storied building at Dunguripali worth Rs42,05,469, a double-storied and a single-storied building at langalkata together worth Rs12,80,980, six plots worth Rs5,41,500, two cars, two tractors and a motorcycle together of Rs28,55,000, paddy thresher machine Rs1,20,000, gold ornanments of Rs1,78,200, bank and insurance deposits of Rs8,57,416, household articles of Rs4,20,930 and cost of pesticide stocks of Rs2,43,406.
Tripathy had entered into Government service as Village Agriculture Worker (VAW) in the year 1981 and is continuing as such till date in the office of the District Agriculture Officer, Dunguripali.