Vigilance officials on Wednesday pasted a notice on the rented house of India 24X7 chief news portal head Ravi Sharma for the third time asking him to appear before the probe agency by Thursday in connection with the sting operation conducted by it on four BJD MlAs.
The investigating agency put on the notice on the rented house of Sharma located at Madhusudan Nagar here after the latter did not turn up before the agency despite being served notice for the second time.
It may be recalled that the video footage of the sting operation done by Sharma and cameraman Saroj Kamila was aired on a news channel. The sting showed four MlAs, Anama Nayak, Sushant Behera, Bijay Nayak and Seemarani Nayak, demanding hefty money as bribe from an undercover person posing as an industrialist for giving No Objection Certificates (NOCs) and facilitating land acquisition to set up industries in their respective constituencies.
After the news was aired, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik ordered a Vigilance probe into the matter.