Disproportionate assets case: AE of Sunabeda Municipality Manoj Kumar Patra arrested

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Koraput: Manoj Kumar Patra, the Assistant Engineer of Sunabeda Municipality in Koraput district has been arrested and forwarded to the court on charges of possession of assets disproportionate to the known sources of income.

The Odisha Vigilance team arrested Patra after conducting simultaneous house searches on his properties at 6 places in Khordha, Gajapati, Ganjam and Koraput districts and unearthing property worth more than Rs 28 Crore on February 18.

Six teams of Odisha Vigilance led by 5 DSsP, 8 Inspectors and other staff conducted the search on the following properties of the Assistant Engineer:

  • Residential flat No.102, Block A-2, 1st Floor Kokila Palace (Phase-1) Apartment, Pokhariput, Bhubaneswar.
  • Double storeyed building at Plot No.900, Shakti Nagar, 4th Lane, Berhampur.
  • House at native place located at B.Sitapur, Paralakhemundi.
  • Residential building of relative at Chandraprabha Street 2nd Lane, Berhampur.
  • Residential quarter at Sunabeda Municipality Colony, Sunabeda.
  • Office chamber at Municipality office, Sunabeda.

During the house searches, the following assets worth Crores were unearthed in the name of Manoj Kumar Patra and his spouse;

  • Cash total Rs 28.61 Lakh.
  • Gold jewellery approx 369.10 gms and silver jewellery approx 288.51 gms worth over Rs.11.44 lakh.
  • One 3 BHK flat at Pokhariput, Bhubaneswar worth about Rs.80 lakh.
  • Double-storeyed building at Berhampur worth about Rs.50.57 lakh as per preliminary estimate.
  • 7 numbers of plots including one plot at Bhubaneswar and 3 plots each in Berhampur and Koraput. Undervaluation is suspected during registration.
  • Fixed deposits, Bank, Insurance and Postal deposits over Rs.40 lakh.
  • Household articles worth over Rs 16.59 lakh.
  • One Hyundai Venue car worth Rs 12.88 lakh.
  • 2 two-wheelers (Honda Unicorn worth Rs 1,10,000/- & TVS Jupiter worth Rs. 59,500/-).

As he was found in possession of disproportionate assets, which he could not account for satisfactorily, Koraput Vigilance P.S. Case No.2 dt.20.02.2022 has been registered against Manoj Kumar Patra and his spouse U/s 13(2) r/w 13(1)(b)/12 PC Act-1988 as amended by Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act-2018.

In course of investigation, today he has been arrested and forwarded to the Court of Special Judge, Vigilance, Jeypore.

Further investigation of the case is in progress.

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