Key Takeaways
- Vigilance officers uncovered crores of rupees in undisclosed assets belonging to a Superintending Engineer.
- Searches across Bhubaneswar and Bhadrak yielded cash, gold, real‑estate holdings and several vehicles.
- The case involves high‑ranking officials, including 7 DSPs and 5 Inspectors, highlighting a major anti‑corruption effort.
Bhubaneswar: Vigilance officials on Wednesday unearthed disproportionate assets worth crores of rupees from the possession of a Superintending Engineer in the office of the Engineer‑in‑Chief, PH Division, Bhubaneswar.
The investigation revealed multiple properties, cash, gold and vehicles linked to the official.
Vigilance sources here said on the allegation of possession of disproportionate assets by Biswabandhu Panigrahi, the Superintending Engineer, simultaneous house searches were conducted by 7 DSPs, 5 Inspectors , 8 ASIs and other staff at six places in Bhubaneswar and Bhadrak.
During searches, so far, a double storied building at Bhubaneswar, advance Rs. 39 Lakh paid by Panigrahi to a real estate company to purchase a three BHK Flat in name of his spouse in Rudrapur, Bhubaneswar, One single storied building at Bhadrak, 4 plots in prime area of Bhubaneswar and Bhadrak were detected.
The measurement and valuation of the above buildings/plots is being carried out by Vigilance Technical Wing.
In addition to it, Rs 2 lakh in cash, around 250 grams of gold Insurance deposits worth over Rs 51 akh, Bank, Postal and other deposits are under verification.
One four-wheeler and four two-wheelers were also unearthed during search by the Vigilance officials so far.
Searches are continuing, the sources added.
