Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance on Monday arrested Boudh motor vehicle inspector (MVI), Golap Chandra Hansdah, on charges of accumulating wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.
During the simultaneous searches, the anti-corruption agency unearthed 44 plots (43 in and around Baripada town and one on the outskirts of Balasore town), gold ornaments/articles weighing around 1 kg and and 2 kg silver jewellery, belonging to Hansdah.
While the gold seized included two gold biscuits each weighing 50 gram. Vigilance officers suspect undervaluation of the plots, whose sale deed value was calculated at Rs 1.49 crore.
The Hansdah family also owns a two-storey building spread over 3,300 sq ft in Baripada. The Vigilance also traced his bank/postal/insurance deposits amounting to over Rs 1.34 crore, household articles worth more than Rs 16 lakh, one SUV, Rs 2.38 lakh in cash, among other assets.
While he had spent Rs 40 lakh on the medical education of his daughter, a diary with details of ‘benami’ money transactions was also seized.
A Vigilance release added that the MVI was placed under arrest after he failed to satisfactorily account for the assets detected during the searches carried out at six places in Baripada, Boudh and Bhubaneswar.
SERVICE DETAILS
Hansdah joined government service as an IPO on 18.04.1991 and worked in the DIC offices of Sambalpur and Deogarh. He was promoted as Junior MVI in 2003 and worked at Taparia Check Gate in Sundergarh, Laxmidunguri Check Gate in Sambalpur, and later in the RTO offices of Mayurbhanj and Bargarh. In 2020, he was promoted to MVI and posted to the RTO office in Boudh.
He drew a monthly salary of Rs 1.08 lakh.
