Tag: Vigilance

Bhadrak: Vigilance officials today conducted simultaneous searches on the office and residence of Kamalakant Behera, Assistant Executive Engineer of Salandi Canal Division in Bhadrak on charges of amassing property disproportionate to his known sources of income. Sources said two teams of the anti-corruption wing headed by Balasore Vigilance DSP Santosh Samantray and Baripada Vigilance DSP […]

Rourkela: Three Government officials have been arrested by Vigilance for their alleged involvement in financial irregularities  in a road construction project in Sundergarh district. The officials- Lathikata Block Development Officer (BDO) Purna Chandra Bhoi, assistant executive engineer Rajkishore Sahu and assistant engineer Budheswar Sahoo have been nabbed for embezzlement of around Rs 42 lakh. The […]

Rourkela: A team of Vigilance officials today raided official residence of three officers of Lathikata block in Sundergarh district on charges of their involvement in financial irregularities. The sleuths searched the houses of BDO Purna Chandra Bhoi, additional executive engineer Rajkishore Sahu and additional engineer Budheswar Sahoo located in Chhend Colony. After financial irregularities of […]

Baripada: Vigilance sleuths arrested Kaptipada Tehsildar Sarat Chandra Mallick while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh today. Sources said the Tehsildar was accepting the bribe from one Hemant Behera to facilitate illegal sand mining when officials of the anti-corruption wing caught him red-handed. Mallick had demanded a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh […]

Bhubaneswar: The State Vigilance department has registered criminal cases against 453 persons in 2017. Cases have been registered against 61 Class-I officials , 61 Class-II, 383 Class III and 10 Class IV staff in the year. The vigilance registered cases against 38 government staff and 356 non-government officials. While judicial process of 284 cases has […]

Cuttack: Head of the Clinical Haematology Department of SCB Medical College and Hospital, Dr Rabindra Kumar Jena, arrested on charges of embezzling Odisha State Treatment Fund (OSTF) and amassing disproportionate assets today has been sent to jail. A special vigilance court here has sent the tainted doctor to judicial custody till January 3 and asked […]

Baripada: Vigilance sleuths today arrested the IIC and ASI of Kaptipada police station in Mayurbhanj district while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a person to solve a group clash case. As per sources, a group clash had erupted on September 29 this year in which police, during its investigation, seized four bikes and […]

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 […]

Bhadrak: Vigilance officials today raided the office and residences of Tihidi block office cashier Prabhakar Pradhan on charges of acquisition and possession of property disproportionate to his known source of income. During the raid, the anti-corruption officials raided Pradhan’s office at Tihidi, rented house and ancestral houses in Balasore and Bhadrak simultaneously. The exact amount […]

Cuttack: Vigilance officials today raided office and houses of SCB Medical College and Hospital Haematology professor Rabindra Jena and traced his movable and immovable property worth Rs 3.23 crore. Five buildings, five plots with houses, a life insurance deposit of more than Rs 8 lakh and bank deposits of more than Rs 73 lakh in […]

Berhampur: A doctor at the Buguda Community Health Centre (CHC) in Ganjam district was arrested by Vigilance officials today for accepting bribe of Rs 1500. As per a complaint, doctor B Gopal Chandra Rao of the Buguda CHC had already taken Rs 3,000 bribe for the operation of a patient. He was caught red-handed by […]

Bhadrak: Bhadrak Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) Gitanjali Patnaik was arrested by Vigilance today for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 8000. As per complaint, CDMO Gitanjali had demanded bribe from a supervisor of Sarada Security and Facility Service, a security agency, to pass a pending bill. After arresting Gitanjali, officials of the anti-corruption wing […]

Bolangir: The Vigilance today raided houses of Assistant Engineer of Rural Development Bijan Kumar Jena on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known source of income. Simultaneous raids were conducted at Jena’s house in Bhagabatinagar of Bolangir and ancestral home in Mangalpur in Cuttack. Till the filing of this report, the searches were on. […]

Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths today raided the houses and property of Public Health Department Assistant Executive Engineer in Bhubaneswar, Pradip Kumar Patra on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known source of income. The officials conducted simultaneous raids at eight places including his property at Bhubaneswar, Berhampur and Aska. However, the exact amount of property […]

Bolangir: Vigilance sleuths today arrested Bolangir Civil Supplies Officer (CSO) Ranjan Seth on charges of acquisition and possession of property disproportionate to his known source of income. Sources said Seth was arrested by the anti-corruption unit for amassing disproportionate assets amounting to Rs 1.21 crores. The accused will be forwarded to court today. Earlier on […]