The Vigilance police on Wednesday caught Prakash Chandra Sahoo, Additional Commercial Tax Officer, CT and GST, Enforcement Unit, Paradip in Jagatsinghpur red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from a person. Later, he was arrested and forwarded to court.
Sahoo had demanded the bribe from a glass and ply dealer following an inspection of his business site on May 22.
In another operation, simultaneous house searches were carried out on the office and houses of Pravat Kumar Rout, Assistant Engineer, Dampada Panhayat Samiti in Cuttack district on the allegations of possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
So far, movable and immovable assets worth Rs 2.76 crore were detected in the name of Rout and his family members.
In another case, Himansu Sekhar Panda, Junior Assistant, Badampahad CHC in Mayurbhanj district was apprehended while accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a Multipurpose Health Supervisor for drawal of his arrear salary. He was arrested and forwarded to court.
