Vigilance sleuths on Saturday arrested Brahmapur Municipality Tax Collector Dharanidhar Swain and Rajsunakhala outpost ASI Braja Bihari Mishra for demanding and accepting bribes of `1,000 and `2,000, respectively at their respective offices.
In the first case, one Sankar Panigrahi of Sitaram Sahi under Brahmpuar Badabazaar police station had alleged that Tax Collector Swain had demand gratification of Rs 1,000 to delete the name of his grandmother from the Assessment number of an ancestral landed property.
In the second case, Gopabandhu Behera of Narendrapur under Nayagarh’s Ranapur police station had complained that Rajsunakhala outpost ASI Mishra had demanded bribe of `2,000 to compromise shopkeeper-customer dispute case.
In both the cases, Vigilance sleuths laid traps and caught the Tax Collector and the ASI red-handed while taking bribe money from their respective complainants.