Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance on Tuesday arrested Superintending Engineer of Angul’s Irrigation Division Surendra Behera on charges of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
During simultaneous house searches at eight places in Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, Sundargarh, Angul and Ganjam on Monday, the anti-corruption agency found two multi-storey buildings, two flats in Bhubaneswar, four high-value plots, Rs 2.33 lakh in cash and deposits amounting to Rs 54 lakh in the name of Behera and his family members.
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The Superintending Engineer was arrested as he failed to produce documents justifying the sources of these assets, a Vigilance release said.
