Vigilance officials on Thursday arrested Nabarangpur District Social Welfare Officer (DSWO) Basanti Hembram in connection with a forgery occurred in the departmental promotion at the Koraput ICDS in 2013.
Jeypore Vigilance SP Shashi Bhushan Mishra said three Anganwadi workers had produced fake metric certificates to get promotion as Anganwadi supervisor. Hembram, who was the Koraput CDPO at that time and head of the promotion committee, verified and found the certificates as fake. But she allowed the promotions justifying the certificates as genuine, the SP said. Jeypore Vigilance Division inquired into the matter and arrested Hembram.
In another case, Vigilance officers arrested Junior Clerk Dibakar Tripathy at the office of the Ranpur Block Education Officer (BEO) in Nayagarh district for demanding and accepting Rs 2,000 bribe from Susanta Behera of Godimada village. The complainant alleged that his father, who was a retired school teacher, died in 2014. His mother had applied for family pension at the BEO office. When Behera requested Tripathy to process the file, the latter demanded the bribe. Behera reported the matter to Vigilance, following which a trap was laid and Tripathy was caught red-handed.
Similarly in Kalahandi district, Panchayat Executive Officer Chanchal Harijan of Manjhar gram panchayat was caught red-handed by Vigilance officers while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 2,000 from one Bindu Mohananda of Manjhar gram Panchayat.
Mohananda alleged that he had applied for sanctioning of an IAY house in his favour. When he requested Harijan for processing the file for the purpose, the official demanded the bribe.