The Vigilance police on Tuesday raided the office and properties of Pratap Kumar Samal, Deputy Manager of Odisha Police Housing and Welfare Corporation (OPHWC) on the allegation of possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The raids were carried at a three-storied building at IRC Village, a six-storied building opposite the Bhagabati Temple in Jayadev Vihar, a single-storied building at Sarakantra near Khandagiri, a flat at Narendra Villa in Jayadev Vihar, all in Bhubanewar; a three-storied apartment ‘Ananya Towers’ at Basudevpur, Bhadrak.
The temporary residence of his associate at Ananya Towers, native house of Samal at Haripur in Simulia of Baleswar district and office of Samal at Bhubaneswar were also raided. The officials seized Rs 38.12 lakh in cash from a Bhubaneswar house of Samal. A five-storied building at Gothapatna here was also found in his wife Sasmita’ name, valued at Rs 3.89 crore.
Besides, a four-storied building at IRC Village, 25 other immovable properties worth crores in the name of Samal and his wife including 17 plots, a flat and a building in Khordha, four plots and a (G+3) building at Basudevpu in Bhadrak district and a double-storied market complex at Betada in Baleswar were unearthed so far.