Bhubaneswar: Arrested woman accounts officer of Odisha Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) and her husband will be taken on a three-day remand by vigilance officials for interrogating them in connection with disproportionate assets case.
The accused Odisha Finance Service (OFS) officer Nalini Prusty and her husband Bijay Ketan Sahoo, who was posted as tehsildar at Chhatrapur in Ganjam district, were arrested by vigilance officials August 30 on charges of amassing properties disproportionate to their known sources of income.
Properties, both movable and immovable, worth Rs 6.87 crore were unearthed by the anti-corruption agency officials during simultaneous raids on seven places including their houses.
Prusty has been serving in OPEPA since 2015 and her total service period is of 19 years, while her spouse has a service period of 13 years.