Vigilance police on Friday arrested Jitendra Kumar Mohanty, Medical Officer in-charge of Kalahandi district’s Chapuria CHC for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs30,000 from Chakradhar Majhi of Kendupani village to appoint his wife as an Asha Karmi.
In his complaint, Majhi stated that his wife had applied for the post of Asha Karmi a month back with relevant documents and photograph. The Medical Officer demanded Rs 30,000 for the job and did not reduce the amount. The Vigilance police laid a trap and caught Mohany red-handed while taking the bribe money. Similarly, Vigilance sleuths on Friday arrested Koraput district’s laxmipur RWSS Junior Engineer Sudhansu Senapati for taking bribe of Rs20,000 from Raj Kumar Patra, a ‘B’ Class contractor of Jeypore, for preparing his final bill against a pipe water project work. Patra had completed the project work with agreement value of Rs55,31,677 at Dumuripadar under laxmipur block in April this year. Senapati had demanded Rs 1 lakh to prepare the final bill. But as Patra expressed inability, Senapati asked him to pay Rs20,000 as advance and the rest 80,000 on receipt of the final bill. In another incident, Rayagada district’s Gurtinguda Project Upper Primary School Headmaster Trinath Bauri was arrested by Vigilance offifers for taking bribe of Rs2,500 from Janesh Sabar of Barkonda village for giving admission to his son in Class I.