Vigilance sleuths on Wednesday caught Ganjam district’s Balisara CHC Medical Officer Dr Banabihari Ghadei for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs5,000 from one Mithun Dakua of Balisira for issue of a death certificate of his father.
Dakua in his complaint mentioned that he had approached Dr Ghadei to issue a death certificate of his father who had expired on May 2, 2015. He required the certificate to get death benefit from the lIC office as his father had a policy of Rs1 lakh. For this, Dr Ghadei demanded Rs5,000.
Acting on his complaint, the Vigilance sleuths laid a trap and caught Dr Ghadei red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs5,000 from the complainant in his chamber.
Similarly, Vigilance officers arrested Subarnapur district’s Panchumahala PACS Secretary Jugal Kishore Mishra for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs2,500 from Artatrana Pandia of Nimna for allowing him to sell 100 quintals of paddy at the PACS.
In the third case, a Vigilance team caught Keonjhar district’s Bansapal Tehsildar Indramani Tandi and Amin Krutibas Nayak while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs1,000 from Dileswar Behera of Toromakunta to issue a Right of Records (RoR) on his land. They were caught red-handed while taking the demanded bribe money from complainant Behera. Besides, a private person, Santosh Naik of Kedapada under Nayagarh Sadar police station, was caught while taking bribe of Rs1,000 from Budhibamana Mohanty of Kantabania for helping him to get a mutation certificate against purchased plots from the concerned tehsil office.