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The Orissa High Court has concluded the hearing on the anticipatory bail application of senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi and has reserved its verdict. Meanwhile, the interim protection earlier granted by the court will continue to remain in effect.
The case stems from an incident on the night of December 8 last year, when the CBI caught the Bridge and Roof Company Ltd. Director Chanchal Mukherjee red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe from a contractor near a star hotel in Bhubaneswar. Along with Chanchal, the CBI arrested the contractor Santosh Maharana and a middleman, Debadatta Mahapatra, launching a full-scale invest...