Acting on the allegations of acquisition of disproportionate assets by Sundargarh Women’s College Head Clerk Ramesh Chandra Patel, Vigilance sleuths on Saturday conducted simultaneous raids on his houses and office room at different places and detected assets worth Rs 1,12,74,978 in his and family members’ names.
The Vigilance officers conducted searches at his residential triple storied building at Maheshdihi, Sundargarh Town, office room at Sundargarh, paternal house at Kudbhaga and father-in-law’s house at Jharkani, bothe under Bhasma police station in Sundargarh district, on the strength of search warrants issued by the court.
The detected assets include triple storied building worth Rs 73,28,000, household articles worth Rs 5,30,279, hard cash of Rs 1,18,765, bank an post office deposits of Rs 15,52,472, lIC premiums of Rs 2,06,901, gold and silver ornaments of Rs 1,45,729, a car of Rs 6,01,832, a tractor in his wife’s name of Rs 7,50,000 and a motorcycle of Rs 41,000.
The search was in progress, said an official release.
In another case, the anti-graft agency arrested Jajpur district’s Dharmasal Tehsil Arua circle Revenue Inspector Basudev Sahoo for demanding and accepting illegal gratification of Rs 4,000 from Chinmaya Patra of Parikhata under the Jenapur police station to submit mutation enquiry report in his favour.
Sahoo’s residential house at Gokana under the Jajpur PS was under search, said an official release.