Unaccounted helicopter travel charges against Naveen, Pandian lack evidence: Court

Giving relief to former chief minister Naveen Patnaik and ex-bureaucrat-turned politician V K Pandian, a sessions court in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday rejected a challenge to the dismissal of a complaint alleging misuse of funds for nearly 300 helicopter trips and public outreach programmes, holding that the charges were unsubstantiated and unsupported by evidence