Tag: Dfo

A former watchman on Saturday claimed that he had once seen the DFO Sangram Behera visiting Mohapatra’s residence at midnight

Keonjhar: Panic gripped locals of Nahabeda village under Jhumpura block of Keonjhar after a herd of 22 wild elephants strayed into the village and  damaged crops and other property. “The elephants have been damaging our crops from past three days and also destroying  houses in the village, forcing  us to stay awake all night to […]

Berhampur: Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Ghumusar South Division under Bhanjanagar in Ganjam district, Bijoy Ketan Acharya was on Monday sent to judicial custody by a Special Vigilance court for amassing disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 3.22 crore. According to reports, a team of anti-graft officials of Berhampur division on Saturday conducted simultaneous […]

Dhankanal: A wild elephant, which had suffered multiple injuries after being hit by a train on Friday, died Tuesday afternoon at the Matharagadi forests in Hindol range of Dhenkanal district. Locals spotted the carcass of the elephant in the forest and immediately informed the Forest Department whose officials rushed to spot, recovered the carcass and […]

The case of mysterious death of Paralakhemundi ACF Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra is seeing new chapters unfolding every day.

Nuapada: Vigilance sleuths today arrested Khadial Kendu Leaf Division’s DFO Laxmikanta Mishra while he was demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2.20 lakh from a Ranger here in Nuapada district. According to sources, a government project of Rs 13 lakh has been sanctioned for Lakhna Range in the district to construct houses and kendu […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Vigilance today conducted simultaneous raids at four places on the houses and office of Bhubaneswar City Division DFO Chittaranjan Mishra for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets. The sleuths searched Mishra’s residence located in Old Town, Bhubaneswar and ancestral house in Kanpur of Cuttack. Besides, Mishra’s office in Saheed Nagar and his father-in-law’s house […]

Bhubaneswar: At least three persons were injured as a wild boar attacked them near Ghatikia locality on the outskirts of capital city today. “The animal which had sneaked into the locality lying on the fringe of Chandaka wildlife sanctuary, might have attacked them in self-defence after being frightened by human presence”, said Divisional Forest Officer, […]

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: For the wildlife personnel, a distressed pachyderm with a motor tyre stuck in one of its legs nearly two months back continues to be a cause of worry. Last sighted in Athgarh forest area in Cuttack district, the forest officials have renewed its exercise to disentangle the ‘foreign’ object from the animal’s leg by […]

Bhubaneswar: Another DFO has landed in Vigilance net for amassing assets disproportionate to income. The DFO has been identified as Mahadeo Badaik. The Vigilance sleuths today conducted raids at four places across the State including Bhubaneswar in this connection. During raids the sleuths traced houses belonging to the DFO at Sundergarh and Rourkela along with […]

Khariar/Bhubaneswar: Khariar DFO Sarat Chandra Panda was arrested by the State Vigilance on Sunday evening on charges of amassing disproportionate asset. Properties worth Rs 5 crore have been traced in the name of Sarat and family members. Besides, from Sarat’s Khariar office, new currency notes worth Rs 6 lakh were seized by the Income tax […]

Nuapada/Bhubaneswar: Vigilance on Thursday raided house and office of Khariar Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Sarat Chandra Panda on charges of accumulating  assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The sleuths are conducting raids at the DFO’s residence in Bhubaneswar and office at Khariar in Nuapada district. As bank deposits of Rs 4 crore in […]

Bhubaneswar: Income Tax (IT) officials continued their raid at the house and office of Khariar Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Sarat Chandra Panda on the second day today. Panda is booked under charges of tax evasion. The house of Panda at Gouri Nagar in Bhubaneswar and another house at Anantapur under Soro block in Balasore district […]

Redhakhol: Vigilance sleuths today undertake simultaneous raids at houses of Redhakhol Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Santosh Banchhor on charges of amassing disproportionate assets. Divided in different teams, the vigilance sleuths searched the official residence of Banchhor in Redhakhol, houses of the DFO in Kendrapara, Sundargarh and Patia in Bhubaneswar. As the search was going at […]

The mystery behind the death of Paralekhamundi Assistant Conservator of Forest, Soumyaranjan Mohapatra, seems to be deepening with each passing day. On Monday (July 19) the uncle of the deceased revealed some shocking details about a bachelor’s party that the couple allegedly attended.