7-Yr Jail Term, Over Rs 28 Lakh Fine For Degree College Clerk In Odisha

Bhawanipatna: A Special Vigilance Court on Tuesday sentenced a clerk to seven years of imprisonment and slapped a whopping penalty of Rs 28.57 lakh after convicting him in a disproportionate assets case.

Pradeep Kumar Sahu, Junior Clerk of the Degree Women’s College, Dharmagarh in Kalahandi district, was arrested in 2014 on charges of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

On July 15, 2014, the vigilance officials had conducted simultaneous searches at Sahu’s residential house and office room at Dharmagarh.

During the search, movable and immovable assets found in possession of Sahu and in the names of his family members included gold ornaments worth Rs 2.50 lakh, deposits in different banks and LIC to the tune of Rs 2.58 lakh, hard cash of Rs 2.50 lakh, two double-storied building at Dharmagarh and five plots of land at different places of Dharmagarh.

The total cost of the assets detected in possession of Sahu and his family members was estimated at Rs 72.83 lakh.

(Edited By Suryakant Jena)