Odisha IAS officer bribe case: Vigilance conducting searches at 11 locations

The Vigilance Department has conducted searches at 11 locations in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Balasore to trace out incriminating documents and disproportionate assets in connection with a case pertaining to demanding and accepting bribe by IAS official Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya, director Horticulture Odisha."More than 100 vigilance officers and other officials have been deployed for the operations and are conducting searches at 11 locations. Teams consisting of Chartered Accountant, bank officers and officers of Cyber cell are assisting in the investigation," read the press release from Office of Director Vigilance Cuttack."Simultaneous searches are being conducted at the office, residential house, house of relatives, of Dr Upadhyaya and Santosh Pattnayak and other suspect officials of Directorate of Horticulture located at different places in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Balasore to trace out incriminating documents and possession of disproportionate assets," it read.The bureaucrat, Binay ...