Vigilance police on Thursday arrested Athagarh Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra (in pix) and produced him before a court for possession of disproportionate assets, which he could not satisfactorily account for.
Mishra was remanded to judicial custody for a period of 15 days.
On Wednesday, Vigilance officials had detected and seized disproportionate properties worth around Rs 6 crore from Mishra’s houses.
Properties, both immovable and movable assets were detected during simultaneous raids at ten places across the State.
Vigilance Director RP Sharma said the investigating agency would bring the DFO on remand.
Mishra had joined the Odisha Forest Service (OFS) in 1987 as a Class-II officer as Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF). He was promoted to the Class-I rank in May 2007 and posted at
as DFO in Angul and Brahmapur before joining in Athagarh four months ago.