Acting on an allegation of amassment of disproportionate assets, Vigilance officers on Tuesday conducted simultaneous searches in the houses and office room of Cuttack Gandarpur Drainage Division Assistant Engineer Rabi Narayan Bhuyan and detected assets worth Rs 1,72,03,634 in his and his family members’ names.
The Vigilance teams conducted raids at Bhuyan’s three-storied building Mahanadi Vihar, Cuttack, three-storied building at Jagannath Nagar, Koradakanta, Bhubaneswar, office chamber at Gandarpur, father-in-law’s house at Koradakanta and asbestos-roofed pucca house at Potapokhari, Nayabazar, Cuttack on the strength of a search warrant.
The movable and immovable assets detected include building at Mahanadi Vihar of Rs 15 lakh, building at Koradakanta of Rs 51,24,882, pucca house at Potapokhari of Rs 4,57,000, two plots at Jagannath Nagar and Nakhara of Rs 9,48,000, bank deposits of Rs 29,10,119, insurance premiums of Rs 11,86,570, household articles worth Rs 11,42,978, gold ornaments of Rs 1,80,000, hard cash of Rs 11,120, a car and a motorbike of Rs 6,10,000 and Money receipts of Rs 25,81,200 against medical education of daughter Manisha and son Tarun at the Hi-Tech Medical College, Bhubaneswar.
The bank locker of Bhuyan detected in ICICI Bank, Gandarpur Branch, Cuttack is yet to be opened. Search was still on, informed an official release.