{"id":24594,"date":"2024-04-03T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/peo-locked-inside-office-by-ward-members-over-fund-embezzlement-in-odishas-balasore-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T05:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T05:58:14","slug":"peo-locked-inside-office-by-ward-members-over-fund-embezzlement-in-odishas-balasore-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/peo-locked-inside-office-by-ward-members-over-fund-embezzlement-in-odishas-balasore-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"PEO locked inside office by ward members over fund embezzlement in Odisha\u2019s Balasore &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-523173\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Balasore: Ward members of Mathani panchayat in Basta block of Odisha\u2019s Balasore district locked the Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO) inside the panchayat office overnight, accusing him of embezzling funds meant for paying allowances to them.<\/p>\n<p>As per reports, the ward members received allowances for five months instead of seven months. Allegedly, PEO Bhagwat Vashal misappropriated the funds intended for the remaining two months of allowances.<\/p>\n<p>The matter led to a heated argument at the panchayat office on Tuesday. With the situation escalating, the ward members locked the PEO inside his office yesterday, demanding the outstanding allowances.<\/p>\n<p>Sarpanch Natabar Singh said that since the panchayat committee meeting hasn\u2019t been convened in the past two months, the ward members\u2019 demand for allowances is not valid.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Balasore: Ward members of Mathani panchayat in Basta block of Odisha\u2019s Balasore district locked the Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO) inside the panchayat office overnight, accusing him of embezzling funds meant for paying allowances to them. As per reports, the ward members received allowances for five months instead of seven months. Allegedly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24596,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24594\/revisions\/24596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}