Special public prosecutor caught red-handed whereas accepting bribe from cop in Odisha

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: In an unprecedented incident, a particular public prosecutor posted at Bhawanipatna Special Vigilance Court in Kalahandi district was arrested on graft expenses.

Sources mentioned Asutosh Mishra was reportedly caught red-handed whereas accepting Rs 1 lakh from a police official to settle a vigilance case registered in opposition to him.

Mishra had allegedly demanded the bribe from suspended assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Malay Kumar Rana of Kalahandi to assist him come clear on corruption expenses. The case’s charge-sheet has been filed and listening to is on on the Vigilance Court.

“Acting on a tip-off, officers of the Cuttack Vigilance Cell conducted a raid at Mishra’s house on Saturday morning and caught him red-handed. The bribe amount recovered from him has been seized,” mentioned a senior officer of the anti-corruption company.

Searches are being carried out in his home at Radhakrishna Nagar in Bhawanipatna Town. A case has been registered and additional inquiry is on, he added.

The State Vigilance had detected a whopping Rs 123.91 crore price of wealth illegally amassed by 138 individuals final 12 months. Among them, 93 have been public servants.

In 2020, the anti-corruption wing registered a complete of 245 circumstances together with 93 disproportionate belongings (DA) circumstances. As per the company’s knowledge, DA circumstances have been registered in opposition to 93 public servants and 45 personal individuals and the worth of all of the belongings amassed illegally stood at Rs 123.91 crore.

As many as 187 individuals have been arrested in the course of the interval on expenses of corruption. They included 34 Class I, 28 Class II, 106 Class III and 6 Class IV staff moreover 5 different public servants and eight personal people.

Senior Indian Forest Service officer Abhay Kant Pathak was arrested in November final 12 months on expenses of amassing belongings disproportionate to his recognized sources of earnings. He was compulsorily retired in May after the Centre authorised the state authorities’s advice.