Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday raided the office and residence of Rayagada unit Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) Regional Officer Adhikari Ashok Kumar Chatterjee in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case and detected assets worth `1,37,06,760 so far.
On the strength of a search warrant issued by the Baleswar Special Vigilance Judge Court the Baleswar division anti-corruption wing sleuths conducted simultaneous raids at the rented house at Nehuru Nagar and office chamber at Kasturi Nagar in Rayagada Town, double storied building at Bhimpura in Baleswar Town, flat in Nirupama apartment in Nayapalli in Bhubaneswar, double storied building at Badaraghunathpur near Gohira Chhka in Bhubaneswar, quarters of his son at Birla Tyres Colony Bamapada in Baleswar and parental house at Badapada in Pattamundai in Kendrapada districts.
While the cost of the double-storied building at Bhimpura was valued at `17,33, 440, the cost of another double storied building at Badaraghunathpur near Gohira Chhaka in Bhubaneswar was calculated at `50,92,346. The apartment in Nayapalli was estimated at 2,30,000 while the Vigilance sleuths calculated the amount of the land at Baleswar at `72,000 and another one in Bhubaneswar at `27,189. The sleuths also detected `13,40,441 bank deposits in different banks in his name and his relatives too while postal deposits worth `5,13,000 was also traced. Cash worth `3,57,000 gold ornaments worth `1,40,000 and one car and three motorcycles worth over `7 lakh was also detected.
In another case of graft, Khordha Vigilance sleuths seized `5,55,480 of different denominations from the possession of Tangi Wild life Forest Range Officer Ashok Kumar Das near his house at Tangi. As Das failed to give any satisfactory answer Vigilance sleuths detained him and undertook searches at his house in Sisupalgarh in Bhubaneswar and at his village in Dhamilo under Balianta police station to unearth possession of further assets.