Earlier in the day, the vigilance sleuths conducted searches at the properties of Tihidi Tehsildar Ramesh Chandra Panda, Sub-collector Mahendra Prasad Mohanty (retired), and former Revenue Inspectors, Santosh Kumar Mallick of Jhimani circle, Jyoti Bhusan Barik of Pandua circle, Subhash Chandra Das of Kujanga circle and Narendra Kumar Lenka (retired) of Paradeepgarh circle for allegedly allotting Government land to ineligible beneficiaries under the Vasundhara scheme.
Sources said Panda was Kujanga Tehsildar and Mohanty was Sub-collector of Jagatsinghpur when they were allegedly involved in the scam.
Vasundhara scheme, launched in 2006, aims at providing land to homestead-fewer families in rural areas of the State. Under the scheme, upto 10 decimal of land should be allotted to a homestead-less family for construction of house.
