After CBI summons in bribery case, senior Odisha IAS officer will get his switch orders | Newest Information India

Aside from the social safety division, Sethi beforehand additionally held extra cost of the departments of Odia Language, Literature & Tradition division and ST&SC Improvement, Minorities & Backward Lessons Welfare division.

Sethi, a 1995 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, has been divested of his tasks with respect to those departments and might be OSD with the final administration and public grievance division.

His switch orders come days after CBI arrested Chanchal Mukherjee, group basic supervisor of Kolkata-based Bridge and Roof Firm, a central public sector enterprise, on prices of taking a ₹10 lakh bribe from an actual property firm promising them work orders.

Mukherjee was arrested in entrance of Mayfair Lodge in Bhubaneswar on Saturday night after he allegedly acquired the cash from the proprietor of an actual property agency.

CBI later summoned Sethi and informed him to look earlier than the investigating officer on the company’s Bhubaneswar workplace on December 11 however he was a no-show. He was subsequently informed to look earlier than the company by 12 midday on Wednesday.

“It’s learnt that you’re acquainted with some essential and related details and circumstances of the moment CBI case, that are required to be ascertained from you,” the CBI mentioned in its letter.

CBI has already interrogated two drivers allegedly linked to Sethi and the final supervisor of the resort the place the bribes had been allegedly paid.