Tag: Vigilance Department

Vigilance sleuths on Thursday (Nov 25), conducted raids at various places linked to an Assistant Engineer of the ITDA (Integrated Tribal Development Agency) at Baripada on charges of accumulating assets disproportionate to his income.

Bhubaneswar: Hailing the achievement of Vigilance department which recorded a conviction rate of 51 per cent this year, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik stressed on capacity building of the anti-corruption wing to improve the skills of officers. While addressing during the State-level Vigilance Awareness Week 2018 event in Bhubaneswar, Patnaik informed that Odisha government is […]

Kendrapada: Vigilance Department officials raided several government offices in Kendrapara today over allegations of undue favours shown to arrested gangster Tito. The raids were carried out at Garadapur tehsil, Derabisha tehsil and the RTO office at Dehuria tehsil. Similarly, Civil Supplies department’s office and the Municipality office in Kendrapara were also raided. According to sources, […]

Cuttack: Cracking its whip on rampant corruption at SCB Medical College and Hospital’s Clinical Hematology Department, the Vigilance on Wednesday arrested Dr. Sudha Sethy and sent her to judicial custody on the charges of embezzlement of Odisha State Treatment Fund (OSTF). According to reports, Dr. Sethy in connivance with the Head of the Department (HOD) […]

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 […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s brother, Soumendra Pradhan, whose gas agency at Handidhua in Talcher was raided by the Vigilance sleuths on Saturday, moved the Orissa High Court (HC) today seeking anticipatory bail after the anti-corruption wing registered a case against him in connection with irregularities and adulteration. Another raid on Soumendra’s agency in […]

Bhubaneswar: Probing financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 10.27 crore in the Odisha Police Housing and Welfare Corporation, the Vigilance department has registered cases against three persons. The irregularities were reported in the Bhawanipatna division of the corporation and the Vigilance sleuths have registered cases against the corporation’s joint manager Achyutananda Routray, junior assistant […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Special Vigilance Court rejecting bail application of arrested IAS officer Partha Sarathi Mishra, the Odisha government today placed him under suspension. “Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik suspended OSIC MD Partha Sarathi Mishra who has been arrested by the vigilance,” a communication received from the Chief Minister’s Office said. Earlier on February 16, Mishra […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has ordered compulsory retirement of four high ranking officials after charges of corruption were proved against them. The government officials booked by the State Vigilance Department are Sarat Chandra Panda, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Khariar, with assets of Rs 5.23 crore; Basanta Kumar Behera with assets worth Rs 3.61 crore in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Vigilance Department has registered cases against 6,817 government officials on several corruption charges, informed Odisha Chief Minister at the State Assembly on Monday. While replying to a written question by MLA Sudhir Samal, Patnaik informed the House that the anti-corruption wing has registered cases against 895 Class –I officers till September 30, 2019. […]

Balasore: The inspector-in-charge of Balasore Town Police Station, Sarojini Nayak is allegedly missing since July 1. The lady cop is ‘absconding’ since the arrest of a Sub-Inspector on the charges of corruption, Balasore Vigilance SP Santosh Kumar Mishra said. According to Mishra, two persons including the Sub-Inspector, Bimal Kumar Kar and a middleman Santosh Das […]

Bhubaneswar: The Vigilance sleuths on Monday morning conducted a raid at the Khandagiri residence of Dr. Prasanna Kumar Mishra, an Assistant Professor with an engineering college in the state capital, in connection with the probe into a disproportionate assets case. Kumar is working as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Ghatikia Engineering College in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Vigilance department on Saturday formed a 20-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the alleged possession of disproportionate assets by arrested IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak. Both Pathak and his son Akash were remanded to judicial custody till December 9 following their arrests on Friday. Odisha government has also suspended Pathak from […]

Bhubaneswar: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Vigilance department on Friday stumbled upon more deposits of Rs 1.47 crore in the bank accounts of Akash Pathak, son of arrested IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak. Today’s detection takes the total amount of deposits in three bank accounts of Akash Pathak in Bhubaneswar and Pune to […]

Bhubaneswar: With the Crime Branch and Enforcement Directorate gradually tightening noose on the Pathaks, Akash, the son of arrested IFS officer Abhay Kant Pathak on Saturday hinted towards a conspiracy against his family. Akash while being taken for his production before the court, told reporters that he was working with the Tata motors but now […]