Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday conducted raids on houses and office rooms of three engineers at different places while acting on complaints of disproportionate assets accumulated by them and arrested a junior engineer and a private person for graft.
Vigilance officers conducted raided Redhakhole block Assistant Shyamsundar Majhi’s residential house at Anguliapada, Sambalpur Town, paternal house at Kumarbandha in Jharsuguda district, father-in-law’s house at Mundagaon in Sundargarh district and his office room at Rairakhol and detected moveable and immovable assets worth Rs1,19,32,540 in possession of Majhi in his name and in the name of his family members.
The assets included three plots worth Rs4.2 lakh, two single-storied buildings worth Rs90 lakh, motor vehicles worth Rs8.82 lakh, various deposits worth Rs9.85 lakh, household articles of Rs1.31 lakh and gold and silver ornaments worth Rs1.31 lakh.
In the second such case, Vigilance officers conducted simultaneous searched on Jajpur district’s Duburi left Canal Division II’s Assistant Executive Engineer Khirod Kumar Tripathy and detected movable and immovable assets worth Rs77,70,579 in his possession.
Tripathy’s residential house at Turunga Jangal, Angul, office room and residence at Duburi, parental house at Talamula Sasan in Angul and father-in-law’s house at Deogarh were simultaneously searched.
Search was still on in this case.
In the third case, Subarnarekha Irrigation Project’s Baisinga Canal Division Assistant Engineer Kamalakanta Behera’s residential house at Tulasichoura, paternal house at Pedagadi, office room at Baisinga, brother’s house at Udala, all in Mayurbhanj district were simultaneously searched.
During search, the officers detected assets worth Rs81,39,287. The assets include three plots worth Rs1.21 lakh, a double-storied building worth Rs30.07 lakh, household articles worth Rs7.76 lakh, Bank deposits of Rs37.52 lakh, hard cash of Rs99,120 and gold and silver ornaments of Rs2.73 lakh.
Similarly, a Vigilance team arrested Keonjhar district’s Patna block Junior Engineer Arun Kumar Swain and a private person, Ramesh Chandra Mohanta, for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs3,000 from Basanta Kumar Nayak of Pichhulabeda to prepare a R/A bill for a project undertaken by him.
The investigation was in progress in this case too.