Acting on the allegation of possession of disproportionate assets by Jagatsighpur RWSS Executive Engineer Saroj Kumar Satapathy, Vigilance sleuths conducted simultaneous searches on his houses at eight places and detected assets worth Rs1,00,09,281 in his and his family members’ names.
Satapathy’s double storied building at Kasoti Mauza, Kendrapada, a flat and a single storied building in Bhubaneswar, a single storied building in CDA, office chamber and residence at Jagatsinghpur, paternal house at Naraharipur in Kendrapada and another paternal house at Hazaribagicha, Kendrapara Town were searched.
The detected assets include flat and building in Bhubaneswar of Rs35 lakh, building at CDA of Rs17.07 lakh, building at Kendrapada town of Rs7.13 lakh, plots worth Rs10.50 lakh, gold ornaments of Rs5.70 lakh, motor vehicles of Rs6.60 lakh, hard cash of Rs62,865, bank deposits of Rs2,46,016, household articles of Rs10 lakh and insurance deposits of Rs5 lakh. Inquiry was still on.
In another incident, Vigilance officers arrested Baleswar district’s Soro Gandibed R and B Engineer Sanatan Nayak for demanding and accepting illegal gratification of Rs70,000 from Priyabrata Behera of Sadha village of Keonjhar district to release his arrear bill towards construction of a road from Bhadrak Ranital to Kupari.
Under a sub-let, Behera, a sub-contractor, along with some repaired the road for which the estimated cost was Rs7,93,00,000. When Behera requested Nayak for final payment, Nayak demanded Rs 70,000 and asked him to pay the amount at Hotel Gayatri, Unit-IV, Bhubaneswar.
Vigilance sleuths caught Nayak red-handed while taking the demanded bribe amount from the complainant at the said hotel.
Nayak’s residential house at Baripada was under search.