As per initial reports, the Vigilance officials intercepted Sunil Kumar Behera, Commandant 1st Battalion, Dhenkanal near Madhusudan Setu (CDA side) in Cuttack.
Simultaneous house searches were conducted by Odisha Vigilance led by three DSPs, 10 Inspectors and other staff at several places in Khordha district.
The vigilance teams today carried out simultaneous searches at four places linked to Sudipta Dash in Nayagarh and Khordha districts.
The raids are currently underway in connection with the allegations of the acquisition of disproportionate assets by Sahu. As per sources, the Vigilance department has found bank deposits of Rs 1.80 crore and further searches are on.
According to Vigilance sources, Parida was accepting a bribe of Rs.10,000 from a complainant to help him and his mother in a land dispute case, through a middleman identified as Amareswar Nayak.
As per initial reports, one Sarat Behera had approached the Vigilance after the IIC had allegedly demanded Rs 1 lakh as a bribe to release his vehicles which were detained by concerned officials of the police station. A team of Boudh and Berhampur Vigilance raided and caught the IIC while accepting the bribe.
The Court of Special Judge, Vigilance had ordered jail custody of Rout till July 7, 2023. Rout was earlier produced before the Court of Special Judge Vigilance, Sundargarh for possessing disproportionate assets (DA) worth Rs 5,21,09,659 which is 506 per cent of his known sources of income.
The Opposition alleged that Rout had hand in glove with the higher rank officials in the adminis6tration for which he was able to indulge in such corrupt practices and amass such huge wealth.
The anti-corruption agency had conducted simultaneous raids at five places in Bhubaneswar and Puri associated with Nayak and unearthed disproportionate assets of up to 268 percent more than his known sources of income during the search operation.
The Vigilance sleuths on Monday conducted simultaneous searches on the properties of Cuttack Sadar block assistant engineer Bikash Chandra Bhuyan and Banking Assistant of Bhawanipatna Central Cooperative Bank, Pradeep Kumar Chandrakar on allegations of acquisition of disproportionate assets.
The accused, identified as Manoj Majhi, was arrested from the Krushnaprasad area in Puri district.
The charge sheet was submitted at the Special Court of Vigilance in Bhubaneswar in connection with the cases registered against Panigrahi and his wife, Sujata Panigrahi on October 4, 2021 by the order of Lokayukta, Odisha for possession of disproportionate assets
Swain’s aide Chiranjeev Bal, who also works at the Khandagiri Police Station as a computer operator was also present at the spot and was arrested by the vigilance too.
As seen in the video, two persons are seen grabbing and tussling with a man in a red jacket. The two persons are seen holding the man and trying to pull out something. Suddenly, the man drops a piece of paper from his mouth.
The Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Thursday conducted simultaneous raids on the properties linked to Ajay Kumar Senapati, who works as an assistant engineer in (R & B) Division-II in Balasore district.
When interrogated, he failed to give a satisfactory answer following which the officials recovered the cash from his possession and made the seizure.
The simultaneous searches are being carried out over the allegations of amassing property disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Thakur has been accused of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Apart from this, land records pertaining to 13 plots in Bhubaneswar, Nayagarh and Jajpur districts have also been unearthed.
According to sources, simultaneous searches are being conducted in Cuttack, Jatani, Bhubaneswar, Jagatsingpur and Salipur by teams of the anti-corruption agency led by three DSPs, 11 Inspectors, two sub inspectors, five sub inspectors and other staff.