Acting on a complaint of acquisition and possession of disproportionate assets, Vigilance sleuths on Friday conducted simultaneous searches on houses and office room of Bargarh district’s Paikamal Tehsilda Janaki Nath Mishra at different places and detected assets worth Rs 1, 40, 97,604 in his and his family members’ names.
Mishra’s Government quarter at Unit II in Bhubaneswar, a flat at Cosmopolis Apartment in Dumduma, paternal house at Nuasasana under Jajpur district’s Badchana police station, rented house and office room at Paikmal were simultaneously searched, said an official release.
The detected assets include a flat at Dumduma and HIG house at Rourkela together of Rs 40,78,000, household articles and motor vehicles of Rs 8,43,200, hard cash of Rs 2,53,200, gold and silver ornaments of Rs 2,71,630 and bank deposits ofRs 86,51,574.
Mishra had joined as Development Officer in lIC of India, Angul Branch in August1988 and continued in the post till May 1994 when he joined as Social Education Organiser in the I and PR Department. He got OAS in July 1996 and was posted as Additional Tehsildar, Rajangapur in Sundargarh Dist. He was posted as BDO, Deputy Controller of Civil Defence, Deputy Collector, and Tehsildar at different places. He was posted as Tehsildar at Paikmal on July 13, 2016.
Further search and investigation were in progress, said the release.