The Special Vigilance Court, Bhubaneswar on Monday sentenced a retired Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) to two years and eight months of rigorous imprisonment (RI) after convicting him on the charges of accumulating properties disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The convicted retired DFO Abhaya Charan Khuntia of Khariar in Nuapada district. According to Public Prosecutor of Vigilance Sunil Pati, Special Vigilance Court judge Bibhu Prasad Routray hearing the case convicted Khuntia for possessing illegal assets of Rs 7, 69, 860. Besides the 32-month rigorous imprisonment (RI), the court also imposed a fine of Rs 77, 000, he added.
When Khuntia was working as the DFO, Nuapada, Pati said Vigilance sleuths had conducted raids on Khuntia’s official residence at Khariar and own house at Nayapalli in Bhubaneswar on July 17, 1993 for possessing disproportionate property of Rs 8,21,270. The Vigilance had arrested him the same day.