LG accorded approval under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 1988, for the registration of the case against assistant engineer JS Chauhan, and junior engineer Devi Singh on the complaint that they released payment to the contractor without proper verification of wo
According to officials, Kumar was apprehended by the officials of the anti-corruption agency while receiving an undue advantage from a contractor to release the withheld amount of two projects.
The action was taken after a case was registered at Rourkela police station against Prasanta Kumar Rout, Additional Sub-Collector, Nawarangpur, and his wife under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Amendment Act, 1988, they said on Saturday.
Aditya Kumar - a 2011-batch IPS officer, the then Senior Superintendent of Police, Gaya, Bihar, has been booked under sections 13 (1) (b) and 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 1988, and 120 (B) of IPC for possession of disproportionate assets to the extent of Rs1.37 cro
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], October 17 (ANI): State Vigilance on Sunday conducted raids at several places related to Gopalpur (Ganjam) Expelled MLA Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy on allegation of possession of disproportionate assets.
Keonjhar (Odisha) [India], October 10 (ANI): A Superintending Engineer of the Irrigation Baitarini Division, Keonjhar on Saturday was arrested by a team of Odisha Vigilance under the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 after unaccounted cash in lakhs was seized from his premises.