Odisha Vigilance Raids on Junior Engineer, Forester

The Odisha Vigilance department conducted raids on the properties of two government officers, a junior engineer named Nihar Ranjan Sarkar and a forester named Niranjan Satapathy.

The raids were carried out at nine different locations.

The officers are accused of having assets that are much more valuable than what they should have based on their salaries.

From the junior engineer's properties, they found a big three-story building, several valuable pieces of land, and some cash.

From the forester's properties, they found two three-story buildings, another building, more valuable land, some gold, a lot of cash, and a sport utility vehicle.

The junior engineer started working for the government in 2015 and became a permanent employee in 2022.

The forester started working in 1988 and initially earned only 625 rupees a month.