Vigilance traces crores of properties of OPHWC deputy manager
Vigilance traces crores of properties of OPHWC deputy manager
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Bhubaneswar: The homes and properties of a top Odisha Police Housing & Welfare Corporation (OPHWC) officer were raided and searched by vigilance authorities on Tuesday. In Bhubaneswar he has a property worth Rs 3.89 crore.
Cash worth Rs 38.12 lakh was confiscated from his home by vigilance authorities.
Ten homes associated to Pratap Kumar Samal, Deputy Manager, OPHWC, Bhubaneswar, are being searched.
Bhubaneswar, Balasore, and Bhadrak are the locations of the properties. The raids are being carried out in response to claims that Samal has amassed a fortune that is out of proportion to his known sources of income.
The following are some of the properties that have been raided:
* In the name of Sasmita Samal, a five-story structure on khata no. 594, plot no. 991, area 105, in Gothapatana, Bhubanesawr. It has a total size of 20,350 square feet. The property is assessed at Rs 3.89 crore, which includes both the structure and the land.
* IRC Village, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, four-story building on plot number. N/6-235.
* Two homes in Bhubaneswar's Jayadev Vihar. One of them is a six-story structure just across from Biju Pattanaik College Chhak.
* A single-story structure in Bhubaneswar's Khandagiri neighbourhood.
* Ananya Towers, a ground plus three-story skyscraper in Balisahi, Basudevpur, on site no. 612/7821 in Bhadrak.
* Haripur properties in Simulia, Balasore.
Samal, who was born in 1968, graduated from Bhadrak's Barapada School of Engineering with a Diploma in Civil Engineering in 1987. He started as a Junior Engineer at OPHWC's Bhubaneswar headquarters in 1988.
In addition to Kendrapara, Debagarh, Rourkela, Bolangir, Keonjhar, and Cuttack, he has worked in Kendrapara, Debagarh, Rourkela, Bolangir, Keonjhar, and Cuttack. In 2019, he returned to Bhubaneswar.
