Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths on Tuesday arrested Sudhanshu Sekhar Majhi, a senior assistant of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), for allegedly accepting Rs 20,000 bribe from a contractor to release his pending earnest money deposit (EMD).
In a related development, the vigilance officials also arrested Prasanna Kumar Mishra, an assistant professor of mathematics at the college of engineering and technology (CET) on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. The officials had raided his house and office on Monday.
Mishra was found in possession of assets worth nearly Rs 2.19 crore. After search, inventory and further enquiry, the income, expenditure and assets of Mishra was calculated. He was found in possession of assets disproportionate to the known sources of income to the tune of nearly Rs1.88 crore, which is about 254% of his known sources of income, a vigilance official said.