Cuttack: A special court for trial of corruption cases has ordered the confiscation of properties of an ex-divisional manager of the Odisha Forest Development Corporation (OFDC) in a 19-year-old disproportionate assets case.

The court in Cuttack passed the order to confiscate movable and immovable assets worth Rs 7.42 lakh belonging to Madan Mohan Parichha on Saturday, the vigilance (coordination) official said.

According to records, officers of the vigilance cell in Cuttack raided the residence and offices of Parichha at Balangir Town in June 1994, where he was then posted as divisional manager of the OFDC's kendu leaf division.

Subsequently, a case was registered against him that same month for possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

After investigation, the vigilance charge sheet in the case was submitted in December 1998 for possession of disproportionate assets amounting to around Rs 6.30 lakh. Charges were framed against him in March 2000 and a trial has since been going on at the special court.

Later, in the midst of the trial, a confiscation case was registered in 2014. In its final order on Saturday, the authorised officer of the special court ordered for the confiscation of Parichha's immovable properties worth Rs 6.95 lakh that includes a two-storey building and land on which a market complex has been constructed alongside two outhouses in Balangir Town.

The movable assets that the court ordered to confiscate are worth Rs 46,961.