India, Jan. 31 -- Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested Bishwadarshi Sahoo, the Project Administrator of the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), posted at Bonai in Sundargarh district after he was found in possession of assets disproportionate to his known source of income.

The anti-corruption agency carried out extensive and coordinated raids at seven locations in Sundargarh, including the residence of Sahoo on Thursday and unearthed a multi-storeyed building, two flats (Rs.1.50 crore advanced to purchase one flat) in Bhubaneswar and nine high-value plots.

Besides, Vigilance also found 150 grams of gold, Rs 4.51 lakh cash, deposits over Rs 61 lakhs etc during the raid which he could not explain satisfactorily.

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