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Bhubaneswar, Oct 10 (IANS) A day after being released on bail in a trap case, a senior Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officer was again arrested by the Odisha Vigilance on Friday for allegedly possessing assets nearly 190 per cent more than his known sources of income.
The accused officer has been identified as Siba Malik, who is currently posted as Tehsildar in Mahakalpara in Kendrapara district.
Mallick was earlier arrested by anti-corruption sleuths on September 24 when he was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a complainant to facilitate the removal of an illegal structure built on government land that was obstructing the way to his (complainant’s) house.
Following his arrest, various teams of Odisha Vigilance conducted simultaneous searches at various places linked to Mallick in the disproportionate assets case.
After thorough interrogation and assessment, the detective found that Malik owned almost 190 per cent of his known sources of income, which included four buildings, seven valuable plots, deposits worth Rs 18 lakh and Rs 1.55 lakh in cash, which he failed to explain satisfactorily.
He was arrested for accumulating wealth beyond his known and legal sources of income.
Meanwhile, in another trap case, two employees posted at Jaleshwar Municipality in Balasore were arrested by vigilance officials while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a contractor for clearing the pending bill of works executed under IEC (Information, Education and Communication) activity in the area.
The accused officials were identified as dealing assistant Braj Gopal Ghosh Mohapatra. Sanitation-cum-MIS Coordinator and Ratikant Patra, Sanitation Expert. After completing the work, the complainant was requesting the accused dealing assistant Mahapatra to pay the bill which was pending for about one and a half months.
However, Mohapatra and sanitation expert Patra allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 10,000 to process the file, prompting the complainant to report the matter to vigilance officials.
–IANS
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