Bhubaneswar: Abhinav Dalua, DSP In-Charge of Dhenkanal Sadar Police Station Abhinav Dalua, was sent to jail by the Court of Special Judge, Vigilance, Dhenkanal, after his police remand ended today i.e. on Saturday.
Dalua had been arrested by the Vigilance on August 30 while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a complainant (coal transporter) to facilitate his transportation business. He had been sent to judicial custody till September 13.
He was brought on Police remand from September 8 to 10 for further interrogation and collection of voice samples which will be sent to SFSL, Bhubaneswar for voice spectrography test.
During interrogation and scrutiny of documents seized, 14 landed properties i.e. one plot in the name of Dalua at Ramachandrapur in Jatni of Khurda district over which he has constructed a double-storeyed building, five plots in the name of his spouse at Benapanjari, Mangarajpur and Ogalapada in Khurda and at Kogaon in Jajpur and suspected benami properties in the name of his mother-in-law i.e. two plots at Banamaliprasad in Dhenkanal, two plots at Bebartaposhi in Keonjhar acquired in the year 2018 and 2020 respectively, have been found.
Suspected benami properties in the name of his brother-in-law i.e. four plots at Jharbeda in Keonjhar in the year 2020, 2021, and 2022 have been found. The value of these landed properties would be more than two crores. Investments in banks, financial institutions, share market, and acquisition of movable properties, if any are being looked into in detail by a team of Odisha Vigilance.
