Odisha court orders attachment of govt office over Rs 1.37-cr unpaid cyclone shelter bills

Bhubaneswar, Nov 14 (UNI) A court in Odisha's Kendrapara district initiated attachment proceedings against a Rural Development Department office over its failure to pay Rs 1.37 crore, including interest, to a contractor. A special team carried out the attachment at the department's office in Shyamagudia, on the outskirts of Kendrapara town, following an order of the Civil Judge (Senior Division), Commercial Court yesterday. A notice was pasted on the office wall and an inventory of movable assets was prepared in the presence of the contractor's lawyer. The case concerns unpaid bills of contractor Ramesh Chandra Samantaray of Kujang Sandhapur village,…