Acting on a disproportionate assets amassment complaint, Vigilance officers on Thursday conducted simultaneous searches in houses and office room of Redhakhol DFO Santosh Kumar Banchhur and detected assets worth `1,12,13,671 in his and his family members’ names.
Banchhur’s residential house in Kusimdegi village in Sundargarh district, flat in the Adarsa Palace at Patia in Bhubaneswar, father-in-law’s house at litibeda in Sundargarh and office room and Government residence at Redhakhol were searched on the strength of a search warrant issued by the court.
Banchhur entered into Government Service in the year 1992 as ACF and was promoted to the rank of DFO in 2004. He has served at different places of Sambalpur and Sundargarh districts.
The detected movable and immovable assets include flat at Adarsa Palace of `62,25,359, a building at Kusimadegi worth `20 lakh, a car worth `5 lakh, insurance deposits of `9,85,000, bank deposits of `4,79,472, hard cash of `23,840, household articles of `7 lakh and gold ornaments of `3 lakh.
The deposits in different banks could not be verified as the banks were closed, informed an official release.