Chudamani Murmu, CDPO, Kankadahada block in Dhenkanal district, was on Friday arrested by the Vigilance police for taking bribe of Rs 20,000.
Murmu was caught red-handed by Vigilance officers in her Government quarter in the block office campus while accepting the bribe from Jayanti Seth, president of Jayaguru Self Help Group, Badapalasuni
She had demanded the bribe from Seth to pass the bills of Jayaguru Self Help Group, Badapalasuni towards supply of Chhatua packets to different Anganwadi Centres.
The bribe money was recovered from her vanity bag.
It may be mentioned that Murmu has been charge-sheeted in a Baleswar Vigilance case for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 2,000 from one Narahari Singh of Parichhipur for appointment of his sister as an Anganwadi Worker while she was working as CDPO, Gopabandhu Nagar block, Khunta in Mayurbhanj district. The case is under trial in court.