Vigilance officials arrested VlW-cum-Executive Officer Dusasan Rout of Manijanga gram panchayat under Tirtol block in Jagatsinghpur district on Saturday for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs1,000 from one Swarnalata Sahu of Manijanga Village.
Rout had demanded the bribe amount from Sahu to obtain a work order under the ‘Mo Kudia’ scheme from the block administration in favour of the latter. Under the direction of the Vigilance SP, Vigilance Inspector Sumanta Kumar Behera laid a trap and caught Rout red handed. Rout’s residential Government quarter at the block office campus is under search.