Bhubaneswar, March 31: The Special Vigilance Court, Bhubaneswar on Thursday handed out a three-year jail term and a fine of Rs 10 lakh to former executive engineer, Rural Works Department (RWD) of Koraput Division, Jagannath Mohini and a one-year jail term and a fine of Rs one lakh to his wife Renubala Mohini for encouraging her husband to resort to corrupt practices.
During a raid on the office and official residence of Jagannath Mohini on September 20 last year, Vigilance sleuths had found disproportionate properties in the name of his wife. The anti-corruption wing had later registered a case against the couple under section 13 (2) read with 13 (1) (d) of Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, 420, 120 (B) of IPC Firearms, bullets seized from Ramesh Jena hideouts Berhampur, March 31: Town police on Thursday recovered six revolvers and some live bullets from a flat in Bhubaneswar belonging to former Congress legislator Ramesh Jena.
Based on the information shared by Jena’s close aide Prakash Behera during interrogation, police raided Jena’s flat in Jyotsna Apartment under Nayapalli police station in the State capital and recovered the firearms and some incriminating documents. “Santosh Behera had given details about illegal arms trade and other land deals of Ramesh Jena. He had also willfully given information on some hidden firearms secretly kept in the flat of Jena. Based on that, we recovered four revolvers from Bhubaneswar and two from Bhabinipur in Berhampur,” Southern Range IG Amitabh Thakur said. Official sources said prima facie, the documents seized from Jena’s Bhubaneswar flat seem to be related to land agreements. Meanwhile, a fresh land grab case was lodged against Jena on Thursday. After Aska JMFC court’s approval, the police also took Jena on a two-day remand in a land grab case in the area on Thursday.
