The Vigilance police on Friday caught Balangir district’s Deogaon Tehsil Additional Tehsildar Rajendra Choudhury red-handed for demanding and accepting illegal gratification 20,000.
Choudhury was nabbed while taking the bribe in his office room from complainant Biren Dalei (leaseholder for lifting of sand from Balu Ghat under Deogaon tehsil) of Sagarpalli village in order to issue eight transit passbooks to him for lifting of sand, for which he had applied since last month.
Choudhury’s rented residential house at Balangir town and a double-storied building at Rayagada were also searched. He was arrested and forwarded to court.