Crorepati School teacher of Balasore in vigilance Net

(Reporters Today, Bhubaneswar): The anti-corruption vigilance officials found disproportionate assets worth Rs 3.92 crore in possession of a lady school teacher in Balasore district of Odisha on Monday. The lady teacher Manjushree Nayak along with her husband Umakanta Das have been arrested under the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 on Sunday, the officials said.

Nayak was working as an assistant teacher at Kanchanibag UGME School, Kadrabad, Chandipur under Sadar Block in Balasore district. The teacher was found in possession of assets worth Rs. 5,54,29,705 including one four-storied building, one building with pisciculture ponds, 23 plots of land, deposits in different banks, 3 motorcycles, one truck, investment in different policies, gold and silver ornaments and cash of above Rs. 2 lakh, a vigilance department release said. Of her properties worth Rs. 5.54 crore, Rs 3.92 crore was disproportionate to her known source of income.

Worth mentioning, on allegation of acquisition of disproportionate assets the vigilance officials earlier, had launched simultaneous raids on Nayak’s residential house at Kanchanibag, Balasore and house of some of her relatives.