The Vigilance police on Saturday caught Rashmiranjan Behera, Junior Engineer of Hindol NAC in Dhenkanal district, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1,500.
Behera had demanded the bribe from a complainant for release of the last amount of instalment towards construction of PMAY house in favour of his mother.
Following the trap, simultaneous searches were carried out on the residential house of the accused at Bajuria in Dhenkanal district and his office room at Hindol.
Later, he was arrested and forwarded to court. Behera was earlier arrested by the anti-graft agency in 2018 while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 in Koraput.
