The Sundargarh Sadar police on Sunday evening arrested and court-forwarded Gram Rojgar Sevak (GRS) of Ratanpur gram panchayat in Sundargarh district Ranjan Patel on the charge of giving forged Biju Pucca Ghar work orders to four persons of
the panchayat.
Patel reportedly forged the signature of the Tangarpali BDO on the work orders.
The matter came to the fore after BDO Gayatri Dutta Nayak lodged FIR an FIR in the Sadar PS alleging that GRS Ranjan, a resident of Kiakacha village, had issued Biju Paka Ghar work orders to four persons, Sushil Chita, Gita Rout, Debendra Naik and Gita Bhoi by putting his forged signatures on those work orders.
It was also alleged that Patel had taken huge amounts of money from the persons concerned.
“GRS Ranjan Patel has been arrested and forwarded to court on Sunday evening. The forged signatures put on work orders will be tested at the Handwriting Bureau at Rasulgarh in Bhubaneswar,” said Sadar PS SI Saroj Kumar Samal.