{"id":6449,"date":"2023-08-28T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T06:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/28\/special-class-contractor-associate-arrested-for-misappropriation-of-funds-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T06:30:55","slug":"special-class-contractor-associate-arrested-for-misappropriation-of-funds-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/28\/special-class-contractor-associate-arrested-for-misappropriation-of-funds-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Class Contractor, Associate Arrested For Misappropriation Of Funds &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Monday arrested Bijay Kumar Agrawal, a special class contractor, and his power of attorney holder Deepak Kumar Agrawal for alleged misappropriation of government funds in the construction of four 100-bedded hostels for SC Students in Sonepur district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This matter relates to a case registered against the accused persons as well as government officials by Odisha Vigilance vide Vigilance Cell police station on August 28 under Section 13(2)r\/w 13(1)(a) of Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, and Sections 2018\/406\/409\/420\/120-B IPC.<\/p>\n<p>The duo had absconded from their residence at Bolangir since the initiation of Vigilance inquiry into the matter. They were apprehended by a team of Odisha Vigilance from Rourkela and are now being examined at the Vigilance Cell Division Office at Cuttack.<\/p>\n<p>A release issued by Odisha Vigilance read, \u201cBased on reliable inputs regarding misappropriation of funds and substandard work in the construction of four 100-bedded hostels in Sonepur district, Technical Inspection of all the four buildings was conducted by Vigilance Technical Wing. During preliminary surface technical evaluation, large-scale cracks, seepages, low width of roof plaster, use of poor quality wood materials against prescribed sal wood, use of non-standard low quality electrical and sanitary fittings instead of prescribed branded products, and many other defects\/deviations were detected, resulting in huge loss to the government exchequer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance sleuths on Monday arrested Bijay Kumar Agrawal, a special class contractor, and his power of attorney holder Deepak Kumar Agrawal for alleged misappropriation of government funds in the construction of four 100-bedded hostels for SC Students in Sonepur district. This matter relates to a case registered against the accused persons as [&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-6449","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\/6449","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=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6451,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}