By Our Correspondent in Cuttack, February 3, 2015 :

The officer of Special Court, Cuttack, has convicted an ex-superintending engineer of the Odisha irrigation department in disproportionate asset case and asked him to surrender his three-storey building or deposit the market price of the said property.

Gangadhar Jena, the ex-superintending engineer, was convicted for amassing wealth beyond all his known sources of income. Raids by the vigilance wing of the state police on the office and residences of Jena in 2002, had unearthed huge immovable and movable properties.

The market price of the property has been valued at Rs 29,88,308.

The property located in a posh locality here has been registered in the name of the convict’s wife’s name.

The court, in its order passed on January 31 has also imposed a penalty of Rs 6 lakh non-payment of which will warrant a prison term of one year.

This relates to Balasore vigilance case No.6 dt.19.2.2002 u/s 13(2) r/w 13(1)(e) P.C.Act 1988 registered against Jena, who as the erstwhile superintending engineer, irrigation circle, Baripada had accumulated property disproportionate to his known source of income.