Paralakhemundi: Vigilance sleuths arrested government school teacher Dushmanta Nayak in Gajapati district Wednesday evening for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets of Rs 3.27 crore.
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Nayak has been working as an assistant teacher at a government upper primary school at S Routapur village under Gosani block in Gajapati district. The school teacher allegedly possessed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Anti-graft agency officials had earlier raided different houses belonging to Nayak. Total assets of the assistant teacher were calculated to the tune of Rs 3,27,25,448, a Vigilance official said.
Nayak was forwarded to the Special Judge’s Court under Berhampur Vigilance division and remanded to judicial custody till December 23.
Notably, Nayak owned three triple-storey buildings and five double-storey houses in Paralakhemundi town. His ancestral house at Jangalpadu village, office room at the school and his relative’s house at Gunupur in Rayagada were searched December 15.
PNN