According to official sources, Superintending Engineer Srimanta Kumar Sethy and his brother-in-law Karunakar Sethy (shopkeeper) were found in possession of suspected ill-gotten cash to the tune of Rs 5 lakh, which the accused SE could not account for satisfactorily.
Preliminary investigations said that the accused Superintending Engineer collected the money from the contractors and was about to send the money to his family members through his brother-in-law, when the Vigilance sleuths detained them.
Following interception, simultaneous searches launched on properties of the SE at his official residence at B/5 Delta Colony, Unit-8, Bhubaneswar, his residential house at Bhadrak town and brother-in-law’s residential house at Khantapada in Balasore district.
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