Bhubaneswar: In a significant achievement in its fight against corruption, state vigilance directorate on Saturday secured convictions against 14 individuals, including five former sarpanches, two assistant engineers and other govt officials in six different cases.
In the first case, special vigilance court in Baripada sentenced five former sarpanches of Udala block in Mayurbhanj district and an electrical supplier to three years of rigorous imprisonment for misappropriating govt funds by showing undue favours to the supplier by installing substandard sodium vapour lights.
In another case, a former assistant engineer (AE) and junior engineer (JE) of the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Champua, in Keonjhar district, and an executor (private person) were sentenced to four years of rigorous imprisonment for substandard work in the construction of PCB over Mermeda nullah.
In another case, a former tax collector of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) was awarded a four-year jail term for misappropriating govt money collected as fines from defaulters of municipal dues. Similarly, a dismissed city level technical cell (CLTC) professional at DRDA-cum-DUDA in Angul district was sentenced to imprisonment for four years for seeking bribes to process data for passing bills under the PMAY scheme.
In a disproportionate assets case, a retired accountant from the divisional forest office (DFO), territorial, in Sundargarh district was sentenced to three years in prison and levied a fine of Rs 1 lakh. The court ordered the confiscation of his illegal assets worth Rs 3,40,669.
A former manager and former depot-in-charge of MARKFED in Jagannathpur of Ganjam, received three-year sentences for their involvement in fertiliser stock manipulation causing a loss of over Rs 11 lakh to the govt.
The vigilance directorate has initiated proceedings for the dismissal of serving officials and stopping of pension for retired convicts.
Bhubaneswar: In a significant achievement in its fight against corruption, state vigilance directorate on Saturday secured convictions against 14 individuals, including five former sarpanches, two assistant engineers and other govt officials in six different cases.
In the first case, special vigilance court in Baripada sentenced five former sarpanches of Udala block in Mayurbhanj district and an electrical supplier to three years of rigorous imprisonment for misappropriating govt funds by showing undue favours to the supplier by installing substandard sodium vapour lights.
In another case, a former assistant engineer (AE) and junior engineer (JE) of the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Champua, in Keonjhar district, and an executor (private person) were sentenced to four years of rigorous imprisonment for substandard work in the construction of PCB over Mermeda nullah.
In another case, a former tax collector of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) was awarded a four-year jail term for misappropriating govt money collected as fines from defaulters of municipal dues. Similarly, a dismissed city level technical cell (CLTC) professional at DRDA-cum-DUDA in Angul district was sentenced to imprisonment for four years for seeking bribes to process data for passing bills under the PMAY scheme.
In a disproportionate assets case, a retired accountant from the divisional forest office (DFO), territorial, in Sundargarh district was sentenced to three years in prison and levied a fine of Rs 1 lakh. The court ordered the confiscation of his illegal assets worth Rs 3,40,669.
A former manager and former depot-in-charge of MARKFED in Jagannathpur of Ganjam, received three-year sentences for their involvement in fertiliser stock manipulation causing a loss of over Rs 11 lakh to the govt.
The vigilance directorate has initiated proceedings for the dismissal of serving officials and stopping of pension for retired convicts.