EX-B’NGIR
DM’S BAIL PLEA TURNED DOWN
The Special Vigilance Court here on
Monday rejected the bail application of former district Collector of Balangir
Debraj Mishra, who was arrested on November 7 in connection with a recruitment
scam.
He along with a few employees under his command resorted to gross
irregularities in the appointment of revenue inspectors (RIs) and amins during
his tenure as Collector of the district during 2012-13.
The court upheld the decision of the Additional District Judge (ADJ)
court here which had remanded him to judicial custody for 14 days on November
8. Mishra’s counsel Pramod Mishra in his arguments before the court contended
that all the nine charges against his client were baseless and untenable. This
was countered by special public prosecutor Jai Bihari Kadam.
Advocate Mishra said his client would be moving the High Court for bail.
Meanwhile, the former Collector is currently lodged in the Balangir district
jail. Mishra was arrested from his residence in Kapilaparasad in Bhubaneswar on
November 7 by a joint team of Vigilance officials from Sambalpur and
Bhubaneswar divisions.
The Vigilance sleuths claimed to have seized a number of incriminating
documents, besides about 300 grams of gold from his residence during the
raid. The startling revelations about the gross irregularities obtained
through RTI had led first to a Vigilance inquiry followed by a Crime Branch
probe and culminated in Mishra’s arrest on November 7. Mishra was
suspended by the Government before his arrest after preliminary investigation
found prima facie evidence against him.
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