Bhubaneswar, Sept 8: Yesterday the Vigilance team pasted notice on the rented house belonging to the India 24X7 chief news portal head, Ravi Sharma for the third time asking him to appear before the interrogating team by Thursday. The rented house is located at Madhusudan Nagar here, as the accused head did not appear before the team in spite of serving notice that too for the second time.
Notably, the video footage of the sting operation done by Sharma and cameraman Saroj Kamila was aired on a private news channel. The sting showed four MLAs, Anama Nayak, Sushant Behera, Bijay Nayak and Seemarani Nayak, bribing from an undercover person posing as an industrialist for giving No Objection Certificate (NOC) and facilitating land acquisition to set up industries in their respective constituencies.
Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik ordered a Vigilance probe into the incident. Following this, the anti – corruption wing of the Odisha police had served a notice to Sharma asking him to appear before it on September 4. Later, it served another notice asking him to swear yesterday as he did not pay any heed to the last notice. Sharma is on the run after a Vigilance team raided his rented house on September 2 in connection with the sting operation.
