India, Feb. 12 -- A junior assistant in Odisha's health department was arrested on Thursday for allegedly misappropriating Rs.2.38 crore by fraudulently drawing a monthly salary far higher than that of India's Cabinet secretary over an eight-year period, vigilance officials said.

Subrat Kumar Behera, a junior assistant in the office of the chief district medical officer in Angul, was arrested by Odisha Vigilance and produced before the Special Judge, Vigilance, Angul, for possessing disproportionate assets worth 205% of his known sources of income - assets he could not satisfactorily account for.

Behera has been charged with allegedly misappropriating Rs.2.38 crore by drawing excess amounts towards his salary during the period from 2017...