DA Case: Arrested Berhampur PWD Engineer Placed under Suspension

Berhampur: The Odisha Government has placed the arrested Berhampur PWD engineer under suspension for allegedly amassing assets disproportionate to his known source of income.

Binod Kumar Padhy, Superintending Engineer, Southern (R&B) Circle, Berhampur, who was arrested by the vigilance sleuths on charges of possession of disproportionate assets, has been placed under suspension by the Works Department.

“Binod Kumar Padhy, Superintending Engineer, Southern (R&B) Circle, Berhampur is deemed to have been placed under suspension with effect from 04.03.2020, the date of his detention in judicial custody in terms of rule-12(2) of the OCS (CC&A) Rules, 1962 and shall remain under suspension until further orders”, an order issued by the department said.

During the period of suspension, the headquarters of Padhy, S.E. shall be the Office of the Engineer-in-Chief (Civil) Odisha, Bhubaneswar and he shall not leave the headquarters without prior permission of the Engineer-in-Chief (Civil), it stated.

Earlier, an anti-corruption team led by Santanu Kumar Padhi, Vigilance Additional Superintendent of Police at Berhampur Division, conducted simultaneous raids on 12 difference places including Bindo Padhi’s quarter, office room, parental house, a market complex near the Ganjam block office, a farm house in Khallikote, a dairy farm and business establishment at Dimiria and the houses of his relatives.

A case had been registered against the accused engineer and his wife for possession of disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 3, 95,99,453 beyond their known sources of income.

The engineer was sent to jail custody till March 18 by court of Special Judge, Berhampur.

Meanwhile, Ashok Kumar Padhi, SE (C), NH Circle (South) Berhampur, has been given the charge of Superintending Engineer, Southern (R&B) Circle, Berhampur in addition to his own duties until further orders, an official statement said.