Vigilance police on Monday arrested Deogarh district’s Dudhianali GP Executive Officer Jagabandhu Pradhan for demanding and accepting bribe of `2,000 from Biti Krushna Nayak of Mundagohira village to hand over an IAY work order in his wife’s name.
In his complainant, Nayak said he had gone to the Tileibani block office to receive the work order on behalf of his wife as she was ill. Pradhan demanded Rs 5,000 to hand over the work order issued by the BDO in his wife’s name to him. When Nayak expressed his inability, Pradhan reduced the amount to Rs 2,000.
Vigilance sleuths laid a trap and caught Pradhan red-handed while taking the bribe money from Nayak, an official release said.