'5 buildings, 13 plots, mountain of cash': Rs 6k-salaried govt engineer's empire under scanner

BHUBNESWAR: Vigilance sleuths connected Saturday detected 5 multi-storeyed buildings, 13 high-value plots, 341gm gold, Rs 45 lakh deposits and Rs 2.04 crore successful currency from the adjunct enforcement technologist of Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Baliguda, successful Kandhamal district.Sources said the properties of Baikuntha Nath Behera, 52, are apt to increase, arsenic the anti-corruption bureau continued the hunt for his ill-gotten properties astatine 9 antithetic places. During the search, they recovered 4 palatial houses successful antithetic premier locations of Bhubaneswar, portion a 2,500-sq-ft double-storeyed gathering was detected astatine Pandua, Dharmasala, successful Jajpur district. Of the detected high-value plots, 7 were recovered successful Bhubaneswar, 5 plots successful Dharmasala successful Jajpur district, and 1 successful Baripada.The vigilance method helping is carrying retired the measurement and valuation of the detected buildings and plots, sources said. The nonstop worth of his ill-gotten properties would beryllium known lone aft estimation, sources said.

The simultaneous hunt was carried retired by pressing into work 2 further SPs, 5 DSPs, six inspectors and different supporting staff. Behera joined govt work connected Aug 16, 1999, arsenic inferior technologist (civil) successful Nabarangpur territory astatine a monthly wage of Rs 6,000. On Feb 12, helium was promoted to the fertile of adjunct enforcement technologist and posted astatine ITDA, Baliguda, successful Kandhamal district. He has continued determination truthful far.