The Vigilance police on Wednesday caught Puri district’s Nahantara Revenue Circle Assistant Revenue Inspector Dillip Kumar Jena red-handed for demanding and accepting an illegal gratification of Rs 4,000.
He was nabbed for taking the bribe from complainant Gaya Bhoi of Uhanga village in the district for not conducting eviction on Bhoi’s land where he had done an illegal construction obstructing the road.
Earlier, people had complained against Bhoi before the ARI to demolish the illegal construction.
But Jena taking the bribe had not conducted the eviction and rather gave favourable report in for of Bhoi. Vigilance Inspector Santosh Panigrahi and his team conducted the raid.