Bhubaneswar, April 11 -- Police on Saturday have sought government approval to proceed against a serving Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Odisha's Home department in connection with an alleged Rs.95 lakh land deal cheating case in Cuttack.

The commissionerate of police has written to the state Home department and general administration department seeking sanction to proceed against Aradhana Das, an additional secretary in the Home department, in connection with a 2022 land deal in Cuttack.

Police officers said Das took Rs.95 lakh from a woman with a disability, Beena Bhawsinka, after promising to sell a 2,400 square feet residential plot in the Cuttack Development Authority (CDA) area, but later refused to transfer the pro...