Vigilance officers have arrested an Excise Inspector and two ASIs of Police for demanding and accepting bribe during the last two days.
The Vigilance officers on Thursday arrested Jajpur Excise Inspector Bijaya Samal for demanding and accepting bribe of `5,000 from one Ajaya Kishore Das of Chormuhan village in the district for submitting charge sheet and final progress report to a court against his uncle Golkha Bihari Behera, who was involved in an excise case. Das reported the matter to Vigilance, following which Samal was caught red-handed while accepting the graft money along with one kg pannier, 250 gm ghee and one kg cheese at his office.
Similarly, the Vigilance sleuths arrested ASI laxman Malik of G Udayagiri police station in Kandhamal district on Thursday for demanding and accepting bribe of `15,000 from one Hari Nayak of Tikabali village for releasing his vehicle and documents, including Dl that were seized by the ASI in a road accident case. later, the accused was caught red-handed by the Vigilance team.
In another case, a Vigilance team arrested ASI Birabar lenka of the Surapratappur Outpost under the Bhuban police station in Dhenkanal district and forwarded him to the Special Vigilance Judge Court on Thursday for demanding and accepting bribe of `7,000. lenka had demanded the bribe from one Sridhar Rout of Bamuan village to allow the latter to carry sand, stone and building materials by his tractor.