FORMER BALANGIR DM MISHRA SENT TO JAIL
Sunday, 09 November
2014 | PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
Former Balangir district Collector Debraj Mishra, who had been
arrested on corruption charges by Vigilance on Friday, was sent to the Balangir
Jail after his bail application was rejected by the Additional District Judge
(ADJ) Court here on Saturday.
Mishra was taken on a
14-day remand by the Crime Branch, which is probing the recruitment scam
against him. He would be produced before court again on Monday for hearing of
his bail plea.
Mishra was produced
amid tight security in the ADJ court on Saturday morning. Hundreds of people
lined up on roadsides to see Mishra while he was being taken to the jail. But
the police didn’t allow anybody, even mediapersons, close to Mishra. Mishra had
been arrested from his residence at Kapilaparasad in Bhubaneswar by Vigilance
officials in connection with the gross irregularities in the appointment of
Revenue Inspectors (RIs) and Amins during his tenure as the district Collector
of Balangir during 2012-13.
Meanwhile, RTI
activist Nilamani Joshi also demanded action against four OAS officers, Clerk
Niranjan Tripathy and 10 others who are allegedly involved in the
irregularities.
Later in the day,
district Collector M Muthukumar suspended Clerk Niranjan Tripathy and shifted
OAS officer Anita Panda from the Establishment Section of the Collectorate to
another section.
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