Tirjok Mohanty, assistant agriculture engineer, Satyanagar, Bhubaneswar, was arrested on Wednesday for taking bribe of Rs 16,000.
He had demanded the bribe from Ajay Kumar lenka, proprietor of lenka Agency, Gudiapokhari, Pipili, to authenticate the sale information uploaded by lenka on the website of the Agriculture Department regarding supply of 42 Crompton Grieves/Texmo brand pump sets to farmers at subsidised price as per the permit issued by the AAO, Pipili, which in turn would help him receive the subsidy amount from the Government.
A trap was laid on by Vigilance officers on Wednesday and Mohanty was caught red-handed. The bribe money was recovered from his office table drawer. In another such case, Suresh Pradhan, Junior Technician in the office of the Junior Engineer, Electrical, WESCO, Sambalpur, was caught red-handed by Vigilance officers in front of Bank of Baroda, Sambalpur, while accepting bribe of Rs 15,000. He had demanded the illegal gratification from Subash Agarwal of Sambalpur not to impose any penalty on him on the physical verification reports in respect of two electric meters.