Kendrapara: Odisha vigilance sleuths today arrested a Junior Assistant in the Chakbandi office for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 10,0000.
The accused has been identified as Jitendra Kumar Senapati, Junior Assistant, O/o- Addl. Commissioner (Settlement & Consolidation), Kendrapara.
Senapati has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.10,000 from a complainant to process her RC case registered in 2022 for correction of plot and khata number related to her land.
The complainant had been requesting Senapati to process her file. But, he demanded a bribe of Rs.10,000 to get the work done. The complainant being a poor woman, was unable to pay the demanded bribe. Hence, finding no other means, the complaint alleged before the Vigilance Authority about harassment over toll-free No. 1064 of Odisha Vigilance.
Accordingly, Vigilance officials planned and nabbed the accused today, while accepting the demanded bribe from the complainant. The entire bribe money has been recovered from the accused and seized.
Following the trap, simultaneous searches are going on at two locations in Senapati from a DA angle.
In this connection, Cuttack Vigilance PS case no 10/2024 U/s-7PC (Amendment) Act, 2018 has been registered. An investigation is in progress against the accused. Further details are awaited.