td-cloud-library domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/amaadcmh/publictrustofindia.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131The Vigilance received a complaint that sub-inspector Bikram Dehuri posted in Baunsuni police station of the district was demanding a bribe of Rs 15,000 for releasing a seized vehicle. The complainant alleged that the police officer was not releasing the vehicle despite the court order.
Following the complaint, the Vigilance laid a trap and told the complainant to give the money to Dehuri. While the sub-inspector was receiving the bribe through PhonePe, Vigilance sleuths caught him red-handed. They recoverd the entire amount from his possession.
Following the seizure, Vigilance also carried out simultaneous raids on the properties of the sub-inspector at different places from DA angle. The searches were being carried out in Dehuri’s office room, his government residence and a residential building owned by him in Purunakatak of the district.
]]>The Rajasthan anti-corruption bureau (ACB) nabbed the official, identified as Naval Kishore Meena, and his associate Babulal Meena who were allegedly taking the bribe through a middleman.
According to the complainant, Naval Kishore and Babulal took the bribe in a chit fund case from Manipur. The duo was taking the bribe in return for dismissing the case, not arresting the guilty and seizing the property, a Rajasthan ACB statement said.
The initial demand was Rs 17 lakh before it was settled at Rs 15 lakh, the statement added.
After a complaint was lodged, Rajasthan ACB personnel conducted raids at several places in the state.
Naval Kishore was arrested by cops after he was trapped by the ACB in a case of disproportionate income against known source of earnings.
]]>The accused, Jadumani Majhi, had demanded the illegal gratification from a Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY) beneficiary for online geotagging of his house completed under the scheme and recommending release of final house completion bill as well as for facilitating bonus in his favour for completion of house under MGNREG scheme within stipulated time, a Vigilance release said.
The entire bribe money has been recovered from Majhi and seized.
While a case has been registered under Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018, simultaneous searches are on at two locations of the GRS to ascertain whether he has accumulated assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, the release added.
]]>The accused has been identified as Soumya Ranjan Dash, ASO (Asst. Section Officer) in the office of Engineer In Chief, Water Resources Department, Odisha, Bhubaneswar.
The accused ASO has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs. 5000/- from a complainant for processing his house building loan file for sanction of loan amount, said reports on Tuesday.
The entire bribe money has been recovered from exclusive possession of Soumya Ranjan Dash and seized. Following the trap reportedly, simultaneous searches are going on at two locations of Dash from Disproportionate Assets (DA) angle.
In this connection, Bhubaneswar Vigilance PS Case no 23/2023 U/s-7PC Amendment Act, 2018 has been registered. Investigation is in progress against the accused ASO Dash.
A detailed report is this regard is awaited in this matter.
]]>“The judgment in Subramanian Swamy will have retrospective effect. Section 6A of the DSPE Act will be considered as having been not in force from the date of its insertion,” the constitution bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, Abhay S Oka, Vikram Nath and JK Maheshwari said on Monday.
This means that senior government officials involved in corruption cases cannot demand protection from coercive measures for the period between September 2003 , when the impugned law was framed, and May 2014, when the SC judgment invalidated the need for prior sanction.
Section 6A of the DSPE Act required the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to obtain prior sanction from the central government to investigate corruption cases against an officer of the rank of joint secretary and above.
The bench further clarified that Section 6A was a procedural provision and that the 2014 decision on its validity had nothing to do with the applicability of Article 20(1), which lays down that no person shall be convicted of any offence except for violation of a law in force at the time of the commission of the alleged act.
The issue was first raised to the Supreme Court when the CBI approached it challenging a Delhi High Court order. A five-judge constitution bench in 2014 termed Section 6A a “discriminatory” provision that “impedes tracking down the corrupt senior bureaucrats”. Later in 2016, a two-judge bench in 2016 referred the questions whether there can be a deprivation of such immunity by a retrospective operation of a judgment of the Court, in the context of Article 20 of the Constitution of India, to a larger bench.
]]>The accused was identified as Rakesh Kumar Patra, Revenue Inspector( RI), Jaypur Circle under Badampahad Tehsil of Mayurbhanj. He had demanded Rs 5000 bribe from a complainant in order to demarcate his 5 plots.
Based on the complaint, a trap was laid by Vigilance officials and Patra was caught while accepting the bribe money from the complainant, a Vigilance release said. The entire bribe money has been recovered from the possession of Patra.
Following the trap, simultaneous searches are going on at two locations of Patra from Disproportionate Assets angle.
In this connection, Balasore Vigilance registered a case under section 7 of Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018. Investigation is in progress against the accused RI.
]]>The accountant has been identified as Ajaya Khuntia.
Acting on a tip-off, vigilance conducted raid and apprehended Khuntia while demanding and accepting bribe Rs.18,000 from a Complainant (an Assistant Teacher ) for processing file of NPS ( National Pension Scheme) work and release of pending arrear DA (Dearness Allowance, recently released by the Govt. ) in favour of him and other teachers.
The entire bribe money has been recovered from accused Sri Khuntia and seized.
Following the trap, simultaneous searches are going on at two locations of Khuntia from a DA angle.
In this connection, Sambalpur Vigilance P.S. Case No.22 dt.24.08.2023 U/s.7 P.C. (Amendment) Act, 2018 has been registered. Further investigation is in progress.
]]>The case was registered against the officer on November 27, 2020, for allegedly misusing his official position and amassing ill-gotten wealth during his tenure as a public servant. The investigation and house searches at 16 places (7 places in Odisha, 2 places in Bihar, 6 places in Mumbai/Pune, Maharastra and 1 place in Rajasthan) revealed disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 14,25,46,901, a Vigilance release said.
More than Rs 10 crore of cash deposits and account transfers of around Rs 5 crore in different bank accounts of the father-son duo also were found. “Both accused persons failed to provide a satisfactory explanation in this regard. Accordingly, a 5000 page Charge Sheet has been filed in the Court of Special Judge, Vigilance, Bhubaneswar documenting detailed evidence against the accused Abhay Kant Pathak for possession of Disproportionate Assets, and his son Akash Kumar Pathak for abetting the offence, for standing their trial in the Court of law.” it added.
On August 18, Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a chargesheet under the anti-money laundering law against the 1987-batch IFoS officer, who was compulsorily retired in May 2021 by the Centre on Odisha government’s recommendation following the Vigilance case, and his son. The ED has also attached assets worth more than Rs 1 crore and seized a BMW car owned by Pathak.
Pathak was last posted as Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (plan, programme and afforestation) in the Odisha government. Akash was also booked for allegedly duping people in lieu of providing jobs.
]]>Sahoo was on the run for eight years in connection with seven corruption cases.
During the last 8 years, he kept changing locations residing in rental accommodations in Delhi and neighbouring areas. He also absconded to Jorhat, Assam, to evade arrest. Recently, he returned to Delhi from Assam. Based on inputs, a team was stationed to pinpoint his location, after which he was nabbed, a Vigilance release said.
He is being produced in a court in Delhi and will be brought to Odisha on transit remand, it added.
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