Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance department on Tuesday arrested Sanjay Kumar Kispatta, an executive engineer with the Odisha Construction Corporation (OCC) Limited, for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Kispatta, who was originally posted in Bhubaneswar but recently deputed to the Lower Suktel Project in Balangir, is being produced before the Court of Special Judge, Vigilance, in Jeypore.
The arrest followed a series of coordinated anti-corruption raids conducted on Monday across seven locations linked to the engineer, including his parental home in Sundargarh’s Lateimundi village, a quarter in Bhubaneswar, an office chamber in Balangir, and a rented house in Koraput.
During the operation, investigators uncovered properties worth crores of rupees, the sources of which Kispatta could not satisfactorily explain.
Among the assets unearthed is a massive 8,000-square-foot, four-storey commercial building in Koraput town operating as a 23-room lodge equipped with amenities mirroring a three-star hotel. Additionally, the technical wing of the Vigilance department detected an under-construction three-storey building covering 7,715 square feet in Lateimundi village, another under-construction house in Koraput, and nine high-value plots – six in Koraput town, two in Rourkela and one in capital city Bhubaneswar.
Beyond real estate, search teams seized Rs 1.16 lakh in cash, bank deposits totalling Rs 46.09 lakh, 325.56 grams of gold, 1.12 kg of silver, two expensive cars, and household articles worth Rs 36.52 lakh
A case has been registered against Kispatta at the Koraput Vigilance Police Station under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 2018.
Kispatta entered government service in 2011 as an assistant engineer in Koraput’s Narayanpatna block on a monthly salary of just Rs 9,300. He was regularised in 2016 and spent roughly 15 years of his career in the Koraput district before receiving a promotion to executive engineer in March of this year.
