Vigilance Recovers Rs 2 Cr Recovered From Neighbour’s House In Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: The Vigilance officials on Friday recovered around Rs 2 crore in cash from the house of his neighbour at Kanan Vihar here.

The huge amount of cash in denominations of Rs 500 was stashed in six cartons.

Odisha Vigilance officials today raided multiple places in connection with an allegation against Rout regarding possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Sleuths of the anti-corruption agency carried out simultaneous house searches at nine locations on the strength of a search warrant issued by Special Judge, Vigilance, Sundargarh.

The raids were being conducted at the following places.

(1) The double-storied residential house of Rout is located at HIG-115, Kanan Vihar, Bhubaneswar.

(2) The residential house of Rout is located at Nabarangpur.

(3) The office chamber of Rout is located at Nabarangpur.

(4) The parental house of Rout is located at village Bahudarada, Bhadrak.

This apart, searches were being conducted at five other locations of acquaintances of Rout.