The Odisha vigilance directorate has arrested an Additional District Magistrate (ADM) on charges of amassing properties disproportionate to his known source of income.
Sundargarh ADM Biswajit Mohapatra was arrested and produced in the Court of Special Judge Vigilance, Bhubaneswar, which remanded him in judicial custody.
“We have detected massive moveable and immoveable properties from the ADM — ₹2.48 crore was found in the shape of bank fixed deposits (₹1.95 crore), mutual funds (₹32.05 lakh) and insurance premium (₹10.79 lakh),” said M. Radhakrishnan, SP (Vigilance).