Since the BJP Government came to power in 2024, the Odisha Vigilance has made a seizure of Rs. 248.91 crore ill-gotten assets and arrested as many as 369 individuals including IAS and State administrative officers under prevention of corruption act, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said.
Prasanna Samantaray, Tahsildar of Kantapara in Cuttack district, was arrested by Odisha Vigilance and produced before the Court of the Special Judge, Vigilance, in Cuttack for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income
The raids came following allegations that he possessed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
50-year-old Jitendra Kumar Panda, Additional Tahasildar, Barang, in the Cuttack district, who has come under Vigilance scanner, incidentally joined government service under Rehabilitation Scheme at Rs 2,000-a-month salary.
The Bhubaneswar Special Judge Vigilance court on Friday convicted former Odisha cadre IAS officer Vinod Kumar, besides six others, on corruption charges and sentenced them to undergo three-year rigorous imprisonment.
The anti-corruption vigilance wing of the Odisha Police, on Wednesday, made a seizure of around Rs 2 crore unaccounted cash acquired by unfair means from the residence of an officer in the predominantly tribal Malkangiri district.
The Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Thursday conducted raids on the properties of a Project Administrator (PA), Integrated Tribal Development Authority (ITDA) and detected huge movable and immovable assets including cash deposits worth crores of rupees.
The anti-corruption vigilance wing of the state police has logged an impressive 50% conviction rate in corruption cases in 2024, while the rate of conviction in Disproportionate Asset (DA) cases stood at 80%, officials said on Tuesday.
An officer of the Odisha State Police Housing Welfare Corporation, who allegedly amassed ill-gotten wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income, threw away bundles of currency notes worth Rs 10 lakh on a neighbour's terrace here to thwart a raid by the anti-corruption vigilance department on Monday.
The accused identified as Rambhav Gattu, Chief Manufacturing Officer (East), Ambuja Cement, Chhatisgarh, entered into the office chamber of Aditya Goyal, an IAS officer posted as Collector of Bargarh district, said Vigilance sleuths.
