Gold ornaments seized by vigilance officials
Bhubaneswar: Odisha vigilance officials on Wednesday seized gold ornaments worth about Rs 84 lakh from a bank locker belonging to former superintending engineer Prasanjit Das, who was arrested last month for allegedly carrying over Rs 7 lakh of unaccounted cash in a vehicle. “We recovered around 606 grams of gold ornaments from a bank locker operated by Das in Bargarh,” a vigilance official said. Das was arrested on Oct 17 after vigilance officials intercepted his vehicle and allegedly recovered Rs 7,28,620 in suspected ill-gotten cash. Subsequent searches at his residence had led to the recovery of an additional Rs 14.60 lakh in cash, officials said.