BHUBANESWAR: Senior IAS officer and previous managing director of Odisha Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC), Vinod Kumar continued to remain incommunicado on Wednesday, a day after the vigilance court docket right here convicted him along with 5 others in a corruption case. Though a vigilance team raided his legitimate place of abode at VIP Colony in posh Nayapalli house right here on Wednesday evening, he was once not there.
“We are making all efforts to track him and 4 others, who were absent in court docket during pronouncement of the decision on Tuesday. Only one of the crucial six convicts was once provide in the court docket,” senior IPS officer and director (vigilance) Debasis Panigrahi mentioned. The court docket had convicted six individuals, together with 5 former officials of ORHDC for fraudulently sanctioning loan of just about Rs 55 lakh to an NGO—Gramya Bikash Manch—during Kumar’s tenure in 2000-01. The convicts included the NGO's secretary Ashis Kumar Nayak.
A vigilance legitimate, who was once part of the raiding team to Kumar’s place of abode on Wednesday, mentioned that the bureaucrat’s members of the family feigned lack of expertise about his whereabouts. “We spoke to his members of the family. They may just not give sufficient answer. Another circle of relatives member mentioned he left house two days in the past on some urgent paintings,” every other vigilance officer mentioned. The members of the family of Kumar refused to talk to media. They mentioned Kumar might have gone to meet his lawyer.
Vigilance officials mentioned Kumar’s cell phone has been switched off. “We strongly suspect that he absconded on Tuesday as he knew about his forthcoming conviction. He will have to be making an attempt for bail. We have stored a close watch on his conceivable legal motion,” an officer mentioned.
Kumar, a 1989-batch IAS officer these days keeping the submit of officer-on-special responsibility in state higher education department, was once untraceable in his administrative center too. While his colleagues refused to be quoted, they showed that he didn't come to administrative center on Tuesday and Wednesday. The higher education department may just not ascertain whether or not or not Kumar implemented for leave earlier. “We may just see him in deep pressure for previous few weeks. He hardly ever interacted with someone. We closing noticed him on Monday,” certainly one of his colleagues mentioned.
Vigilance mentioned Kumar might land in more trouble if he's arrested or he surrenders later. “He shouldn't have been sent to prison instantly had the court docket sentenced him to 3 years in jail. As per legislation, he would have got one month time to problem the conviction in Orissa top court docket. Sanjay Mohanty, the lone convict, who was once present in court docket on Tuesday got 3-year prison time period. He was once not sent to prison. Now, he has one month time to problem his conviction,” a vigilance lawyer mentioned.
“We are making all efforts to track him and 4 others, who were absent in court docket during pronouncement of the decision on Tuesday. Only one of the crucial six convicts was once provide in the court docket,” senior IPS officer and director (vigilance) Debasis Panigrahi mentioned. The court docket had convicted six individuals, together with 5 former officials of ORHDC for fraudulently sanctioning loan of just about Rs 55 lakh to an NGO—Gramya Bikash Manch—during Kumar’s tenure in 2000-01. The convicts included the NGO's secretary Ashis Kumar Nayak.
A vigilance legitimate, who was once part of the raiding team to Kumar’s place of abode on Wednesday, mentioned that the bureaucrat’s members of the family feigned lack of expertise about his whereabouts. “We spoke to his members of the family. They may just not give sufficient answer. Another circle of relatives member mentioned he left house two days in the past on some urgent paintings,” every other vigilance officer mentioned. The members of the family of Kumar refused to talk to media. They mentioned Kumar might have gone to meet his lawyer.
Vigilance officials mentioned Kumar’s cell phone has been switched off. “We strongly suspect that he absconded on Tuesday as he knew about his forthcoming conviction. He will have to be making an attempt for bail. We have stored a close watch on his conceivable legal motion,” an officer mentioned.
Kumar, a 1989-batch IAS officer these days keeping the submit of officer-on-special responsibility in state higher education department, was once untraceable in his administrative center too. While his colleagues refused to be quoted, they showed that he didn't come to administrative center on Tuesday and Wednesday. The higher education department may just not ascertain whether or not or not Kumar implemented for leave earlier. “We may just see him in deep pressure for previous few weeks. He hardly ever interacted with someone. We closing noticed him on Monday,” certainly one of his colleagues mentioned.
Vigilance mentioned Kumar might land in more trouble if he's arrested or he surrenders later. “He shouldn't have been sent to prison instantly had the court docket sentenced him to 3 years in jail. As per legislation, he would have got one month time to problem the conviction in Orissa top court docket. Sanjay Mohanty, the lone convict, who was once present in court docket on Tuesday got 3-year prison time period. He was once not sent to prison. Now, he has one month time to problem his conviction,” a vigilance lawyer mentioned.
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