Tag: Vigilance

Cuttack: The High Court has extended interim protection from arrest to Soumendra Pradhan, brother of Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan, in the vigilance case of cooking gas black marketing. The court will hold the next hearing after two weeks, Soumendra’s counsel Dharanidhar Nayak said. Apprehending arrest, brother of the Union minister had filed an anticipatory bail […]

Bhuabneswar: Days after Vigilance sleuths raided the gas agency of Dharmendra Pradhan’s brother Soumendra Pradhan at Handidhua in Talcher and registered a case against Soumendra in connection with irregularities and adulteration, the Union Petroleum minister on Tuesday said nobody is above law. The law will take its course if any irregularity is found. Asked to […]

Bhubaneswar: Political bickering today gained momentum after the vigilance conducted a raid at a gas agency owned by the brother of Union Minister and Senior BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan at Handidhua in Talcher. BJP general Secretary Prithviraj Harichandan demanded the vigilance should not take a wrong step while coming under any pressure. Harichandan alleged, “As […]

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack/Soro/Nabarangpur: In a major drive against corruption, the State Vigilance today searched houses and places across Odisha associated with a Food Supplies Joint Secretary, headmaster of an ashram school and a headmistress of a school in Kesharpur on charges of amassing disproportionate assets. In Soro, an eight-member team led by DSP Madhusudan Behera raided the […]

Kendrapara: Marsaghai health Supervisor Prabin Grahacharya of Kendrapara district was caught red handed by Vigilance officials while demanding and accepting bribe today. As per complainant Pratap Barik of Daanra village, Grahacharya demanded Rs 1000 from him to change his daughter’s name in birth. The complainant had appealed the health supervisor for the name change in […]

Cuttack: Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday conducted raids at houses of Excise sub-inspector of Choudwar Laxman Sarangi on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. According to sources, the anti-corruption officials raided Sarangi’s houses at Cuttack and Choudwar simultaneously. Besides, the Vigilance also raided the Sarangi’s relatives’ houses. During the raid, the […]

Rayagada: Vigilance sleuths on Saturday conducted simultaneous raids at three places including the government quarter of Ramanaguda block assistant engineer Prasant Panigrhai on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. Reports said, the anti-corruption officials also raided Panigrahi’s two houses at Berhampur and Aska simultaneously. During the raid, the Vigilance team […]

Sambalpur: The Vigilance sleuths on Thursday arrested Saroj Kumar Sethi, an associate professor of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Science and Research (VIMSAR) at Burla, while he was taking a bribe from a patient. According to sources, the anti-corruption wing of Odisha Police caught Sethi red-handed while he was taking a bribe of Rs […]

Cuttack: Cuttack Sadar Block Education Officer (BEO) Paramananda Mishra was caught red-handed by Vigilance officials while demanding and accepting bribe on his retirement day today. Mishra was caught by the Vigilance sleuths while taking Rs 5,000 bribe from a teacher for updating a service book this morning. Officials of the Cuttack Vigilance Division raided the […]

Cuttack: The prime accused in the fake gazette notification scam Motilal Gouda was granted conditional bail by the Orissa High Court. According to sources, Motilal was granted bail against Rs 10 lakh bail bond and 2 sureties. Notably, Motilal was arrested by Crime Branck from Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh for issuing a fake gazette notification. […]

Khurda: Vigilance sleuths on Friday conducted simultaneous raids at five places including the houses of Khurda Forest department ACF Sudhanshu Sekhar Sahoo on charges of amassing protesting disproportionate to his know source of income. Divided in different teams, the anti corruption wing of Odisha police raided the ancestral house of Sahoo at Begunia, his in-laws […]

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 […]

Balasore: Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday conducted simultaneous raids at five places including the houses of Khirachora RI Agasti Patnaik on charges of on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. Reports said, the anti-corruption officials raided Patnaik’s two houses Balasore and his in-laws houses simultaneously. Till now the Vigilance officials have […]

Bhadrak: The Vigilance official today raided houses of the former Sarpanch, Rabindra Sahu, of Rahanj grama panchayat under Bhadrak Sadar block on the allegation of amassing properties disproportionate to his known source of income. Sources said the Vigilance officials conducted raid at total three places. During the search, properties worth Rs1,33,50,000 were detected in the […]

Sundargarh: Vigilance sleuths on Sunday conducted simultaneous raids at five places including houses of Sundargarh jailer Syed Sahiruddin Ahmed on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. Reports said, the anti-corruption officials raided Ahmed’s two houses at Samanta Vihar- plot number- M/14 in Bhubaneswar and Dumduma phase colony-3 plot number L-249, […]