The Authorised Officer of the Special Vigilance Court, Bhubaneswar on Thursday directed to confiscate properties worth Rs11,61,155 of Malkangiri’s former Potteru Irrigation Project Executive Engineer Moallim Khan. As per the direction, Khan’s duplex building No10 of the Metro Cottage at Chintamaniswar lane in Bhubaneswar, cash of Rs1,46,099, a Santro car and a TVS scooty would be confiscated.
This relates to a Berhampur Vigilance case registered in October 2003 against Moallim Khan, son of late Habib Khan of Badrak district’s Shankar Pur village. Khan, who was then working as Executive Engineer of the Potteru Canal Division, had allegedly amassed assets over his known source of income.
He was caught while taking illegal money of Rs1,22, 779 in his official jeep from his office to Bhubaneswar on October 15, 2003. Then his houses and official rooms had been searched. Khan, who had joined as Junior Engineer in 1978, had got promotions, the last being Executive Engineer in October 2001.