Odisha Vigilance Arrests Lower Suktel Chief Construction Engineer With 257% DA; Check His Assets

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance on Friday arrested Chief Construction Engineer, Lower Suktel, Balangir, Sunil Kumar Rout, for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets to the tune of 257%.

The Vigilance teams have detected disproportionate assets worth crores of rupees, which included two multi-storey buildings in Bhubaneswar, 3 flats in Puri and Mathura, 34 plots, a farm house, 1 kg gold, deposits worth over Rs 2.84 crore and another Rs 2.34 lakh in cash, one truck, 2 benami four-wheelers (Creta & Thar) and 4 two-wheelers.

“After thorough search, inventory and further enquiry, the income, expenditure and assets of Rout were calculated and he was found in possession of disproportionate assets which were 257% in excess of his known sources of income,” the official release said.

ASSETS UNEARTHED

1) A triple-storey building at Niladri Vihar, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar.

2) A double-storey at Nilakantha Nagar, Nayapali, Bhubaneswar.

3) 2-BHK Flat (ground floor), Block-J, Sikhetra Bhakta Niwas, Dolamandapsahi, Puri.

4) 1-BHK Flat, Krishnadhham Apartment, VIP road, Puri.

5) 2-BHK Flat at MK A 76, Chandrodayo Mandir, Chhatikara Road, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.

6) A farm house over 8 acre at Saptasajya, Dhenkanal, with a 2-storey building, a poultry farm with about 1000 chicks/ducks, and 1 cow shed with 70 cows/calves.

7) 34 plots (5 in Bhubaneswar, 3 in Puri, 19 in Cuttack, 7 in Dhenkanal).

8) Premium deposits worth Rs.1.86 crore in various insurance companies.

9) Bank deposits worth Rs 98.11 lakh.

10) Rs 2,34,120 in cash

11) Gold ornaments weighing 1 kg (762.45 gram recovered from locker) and 500 gram silver.

12) A truck (TATA LPT), 2 benami four-wheelers (Hyundai Creta & Mahindra Thar) & 4 two-wheelers.
Mahindra Thar) and 4 two wheelers of worth Rs.37,36,597/-.

13) Household articles worth about Rs 15 lakh.