Vigilance police on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids on the residential house and office room of Agriculture Deputy Director, Bhawanipatna office’s senior clerk Bijaya Kumar Negi while acting on allegation of disproportionate assets possessed by him.
Negi’s office chamber and his brother’s house at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi district were searched. During search, the sleuths found movable and immovable assets worth Rs85,34,674 in his name and in the name of his family members.
The search was still on, an official release informed. In another instance, Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday arrested Bargarh district’s Budhapali gram panchayat Executive Officer Mahendra Sahu on the charge of demanding and accepting bribe of Rs4,000 from one Rabilal Puri of Budhapalli village to recommend his name as a Master Trainer. Acting on Puri’s complaint, the sleuths laid a trap and caught Sahu red-handed while accepting the bribe amount from the complainant in his residential house at Bijepur.