Acting on a disproportionate assets complaint, Vigilance sleuths conducted raids on the office and residence of Sundargarh Police Headquarters Head Clerk Pramod Pattanaik and unearthed properties worth about `2 crore on Friday.
Source said a Vigilance team led by DSP Parmaswar Kissan began the raids on Friday morning. The sleuths found that Pattanaik has a two storied building at luhurdhipa, Sundargarh worth `44 lakh and 16 dumpers worth `1.04 crore. Besides, insurance policies, bank deposits, ornaments and hard cash worth lakhs were seized from his possession.
Pattanaik is believed to have more assents. The investigation is still continuing and more assets may be uncovered, said a Vigilance official.
He informed that the department had been keeping watch on Pattanaik for last one year. Reliable sources said many police officers of Sundargarh and Rourkela are under Vigilance scanner now.