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Rs 2 crore cash, palatial buildings and 14 plots: Odisha Vigilance unearths massive wealth from ITDA engineer who started job with 6000 Rs salary

OpIndia Staff - 8 June, 2026

In addition to various Behera’s palatial buildings, the investigators also traced gold ornaments weighing 341 gm and deposits to the tune of Rs 45 lakh. The Vigilance officials also confiscated Rs 2 crore cash from Behera’s bank lockers and Rs 2 lakh from his Patia residence.

68 plots, 5 buildings, 2 farmhouses: Odisha Vigilance uncovers massive assets linked to a government engineer

OpIndia Staff - 20 May, 2026

According to officials, the searches revealed a large network of properties including 68 plots of land spread over around 65 acres, five multi-storey buildings, and two farmhouses covering nearly 17 acres.

Odisha Deputy Director of Mines caught with Rs 4 crores cash packed in suitcases, highest-ever cash seize for Vigilance department

OpIndia Staff - 25 February, 2026

Odisha Vigilance achieved its largest-ever cash seizure on February 25, 2026, recovering over ₹4 crores in unaccounted cash from the Bhubaneswar residence of Debabrata...

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Vigilance Department to investigate luxury items at former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence on LG’s instructions

ANI - 26 December, 2024

Vigilance Department directed the Principal Secretary of the Public Works Department (PWD) to investigate luxury items at Delhi CM’s residence during Arvind Kejriwal’s term

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Over 10% samples failed: Vigilance writes to Delhi health secretary over supply of ‘non-standard’ medicines to hospitals, asks to stop payment and remove stock

ANI - 24 December, 2023

Vigilance asks Delhi health dept to stop payment for supply of non-standard drugs to govt hospitals, and to remove the stock

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AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj, who had authorised midnight raid in dept, stripped of Services and Vigilance portfolios after Delhi Services Bill passed in RS

OpIndia Staff - 8 August, 2023

Amit Shah had alleged that crucial files linked with corruption cases against the Delhi govt and AAP were tampered with, stolen or transferred in a midnight ‘heist’.

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Punjab Vigilance Bureau registers criminal case against Congress leader and former minister along with IAS officer and 10 govt officials: Here is why

OpIndia Staff - 6 January, 2023

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Thursday registered a criminal case against former minister Sunder Sham Arora, Neelima, IAS, and 10 government officials