Bhubaneswar, Aug. 6 -- Odisha Vigilance on Wednesday arrested two government engineering officials and a private contractor for manipulating official records to inflate payments for work that was either not executed or carried out below prescribed standards during the reclamation and renovation of a tank in Paralakhemundi Municipality, Gajapati district. The alleged irregularities resulted in a loss of Rs 55.69 lakh to the State exchequer.
The accused are former Junior Engineer D. Yudhistir, Municipal Engineer Sanjeev Champati, and contractor Surendra Panigrahi, Odisha Vigilance said, adding that they were produced before a court after a Vigilance case was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and various provisions of the Indi...