Cuttack Asst Engineer held taking bribe

Assistant Engineer in GED, Sub Division No 1, Cuttack, Susanta Kumar Tripathy was forwarded to the Court of Special Judge of Vigilance, Cuttack, on Saturday after being arrested on Frifay by Vigilance officers while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs Rs 50,000.

He had demanded the bribe from Pradeep Kumar Mohanty of village  Bharogol under the Cuttack Sadar police station for passing his bill of Rs 9.40 lakh, which he was to get for his electrical wiring work of Government quarters and office.

A trap was laid by Vigilance officers led by Deputy SP Aditya Narayan Prathihari. Tripathy was caught red-handed in his  office room while accepting the bribe from Mohanty.