The Vigilance police arrested Karlamunda Tehsildar Abanikanta Sahu in Bhawanipatna of Kalahandi district for taking bribe of Rs 10,000 at his office on Tuesday.
The Tehsildar had demanded Rs 15,000 as bribe from one Lalsaheb Sahu of Deogaon village for mutation of three lands of the latter. Lalsaheb informed the Vigilance officials about the matter, who conducted a raid and caught the Tehsildar red-handed while he was accepting the bribe money.
Later, a Vigilance team raided his Government quarters and ancestral house in the connection.
In a separate incident, Vigilance officials raided the houses of teacher Mohan Banchhor of Rajborasambar High School in Padmapur of Bargarh district on charges of amassing property disproportionate to his known sources of income.
The team led by Bargarh Vigilance DSP Birendra Kumar Nayak raided the school, Banchhor’s house at College Square and ancestral house at Barikel.
However, the exact amount of disproportionate assets possessed by the teacher was yet to be ascertained.