Acting on allegation of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, the Vigilance police on Thursday conducted raids at the office, official residence and other houses of OAS officer Ashutosh Samal, a former Tehsildar of Bhubaneswar currently working in the Revenue & Disaster Management Department.
As many as four teams of the State anti-corruption agency raided Samal’s official residence, flat at Kharavel Nagar here, office at the State Secretariat, ancestral house at native place Sasan Purusottampur under the Badachana police limits in Jajpur district and a house at Nabarangpur village under the Bhandaripokhari police station in Bhadrak district.
The total assets of Samal was calculated at over Rs 1.22 crore so far, which include a three-bedroom flat in Green High Apartments at Kharavel Nagar worth Rs 80 lakh, two plots at Jagamara and Ebaranga in the city worth Rs 20 lakh, lIC policies of Rs 5.74lakh, deposits in banks and post offices of Rs 4.5 lakh and gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 3.10 lakh.