Balangir, Dec 30: Vigilance officers on Wednesday conducted simultaneous searches at the properties of WESCO accountant Bibhuti Shankar Bindhani over allegations of accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Vigilance carried out searches at his office and his house at Circuit House Road.

During the raid the anti-corruption agency’s sleuths seized cash Rs 15 lakh cash and a gold biscuit from Bindhani.

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