The State Government suspended Mohana BDO Bansidhar Khosla on charge of dereliction of duty.
Without approval of leave, the BDO remained out of headquarters for which the action was taken against him on March 3.
On August 21 at Mandimera,a ganja loaded truck with cashew of 18 quintal was seized.
Under the instruction of a court, the BDO got power to sell the cashew.
Those skinless cashew was worth Rs 1. 42 crore but the BDO sold the cashew at Rs 14 lakh only.
An inquiry was instituted against 8 others in the deal including Supply Inspector Sankar Beher, IIC Adava Tapan Kumar Pati apart from the BDO.
As a plea, the BDO tried to apply advance bail and remained out of headquarters for long days. Further without permission of PD DRDA he remained absent.