Vigilance officers have arrested and court-forwarded four Government employees, including a woman Supervisor of CDPO office and a school headmistress, from different places on charges of demanding and accepting grafts in the last two days.
As per an official release, Vigilance sleuths on Thursday arrested Balangir Sadar block CDPO office’s supervisor Surabala Bohidar for taking bribe of Rs52,000 from one Manjulata Bag, secretary of the Kamala SHG of Madhiapali to pass bills of chhatua for August 2015.
In the second incident, Assistant District labour Officer of Barghar Jatindra Nath Panda was arrested on Thursday for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 2,000 from Krushna Chandra Thakur of Termen village under Bhatli PS to conduct an inquiry into non-payment of salary to him by his employer, the proprietor of the Gadtia Amulya Filling Station, Barhaguda in the district. His arrear salaries amounted to 64,100, according to Thakur.
Similarly, a team of Vigilance on Thursday arrested Polasara MI Subdivision Assistant Executive Engineer Raghunath Mishra on the charge of taking bribe of Rs10,000 from Paresh Kumar Sethi, a contractor of Athagarh Patna in Ganjam district to pass a running bill of Rs 3,35,000.
Sethi had been entrusted to execute the canal work under Champeitipur Badabandha Minor Irrigation Project with estimated cost of Rs.7,00,000. During 2nd running bill of Rs.3,35,000, Mishra had demanded Rs 10,000.
On Wednesday, Vigilance police had caught Koraput district’s Aunli Governemnt High School Headmistress Sarojini Dandasena while accepting bribe of Rs 15,000 from the school’s Assistant Teacher Ramesh Kumar Padhy for withdrawal of GPF advance.
Investigations were under progress in all these cases, informed the release.