Cuttack, March 10: The state vigilance today submitted the preliminary inquiry report to Orissa High Court on the basis of which the FIR was registered against former director-general of police Prakash Mishra.

The report was submitted in a sealed cover after the court refused to accept a trunk load of documents related to the preliminary inquiry. Taking it on record, the single judge bench of Justice S.C. Parija posted the case to Thursday for further submission of arguments by Mishra's advocate Sanjit Mohanty.

On February 19, the high court had directed the state vigilance to submit the preliminary inquiry report. In pursuance of the directive, the state vigilance officials had deposited a trunk containing documents on February 26 related to the preliminary inquiry, along with keys, in the registry of the court.

However on March 2, Justice Parija directed the vigilance to submit "only the relevant records pertaining to the preliminary inquiry, conducted by the vigilance sleuths, on the basis of which the impugned FIR had been lodged in a sealed cover by the next date".

On that day, the court had heard the arguments of senior advocate L. Nageswar Rao appearing for the inquiring department.

Mishra, a 1977-batch IPS officer and now the director-general of Central Reserve Police Force, had challenged the case that the state vigilance had registered against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The FIR was registered against him on September 20 last year for alleged undue favours shown to different steel and cement suppliers during his tenure as chairman-cum-managing director of the Odisha Police Housing and Welfare Corporation between 2006-07 and 2009-10.

The vigilance officials had alleged that undue favours were shown by way of making 100 per cent advance payments of Rs 57.86 crore prior to the supply of cement and steel within stipulated time period.