Clerk drew more pay than cabinet secy, held
Bhubaneswar, Feb. 13 -- A junior assistant in Odisha's health department was arrested for drawing a monthly salary exceeding that of even India's Cabinet Secretary - the country's top bureaucrat - through systematic fraud of more than eight years, vigilance officials revealed on Thursday.
Vigilance officials arrested Subrat Kumar Behera, junior assistant in the office of the chief district medical officer in Angul. They produced him before the special judge (vigilance), Angul, for possessing disproportionate assets worth 205% of his known sources of income - assets he could not satisfactorily explain.
The vigilance team found that Behera, with a legitimate basic pay of Rs.19,000-Rs.22,000 per month, had manipulated salary systems. He drew b...
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