A day after assistant engineer Kartikeswar Raul was arrested for amassing 741% of his known source of income, vigilance sleuths on April 9 stumbled upon ₹1.41 crore of cash concealed by him at a slum here.
Earlier, the vigilance directorate had recovered ₹2 crore in cash from Mr. Raul, who is an assistant engineer in the minor irrigation division in the Ganjam district. The fresh seizure took the total cash confiscated from the corrupt engineer to ₹3.42 crore. It is the highest-ever cash seizure made by vigilance directorate.
Based on inputs, the vigilance department searched a house belonging to his kin at Salia Sahi – the biggest slum of Bhubaneswar.
