The Vigilance police last week caught Mayurbhanj district’s Bangiriposhi Block Education Office (BEO) Accountant Manoranjan Behera red-handed for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 15,000.
He was taking bribe in the office campus from complainant Laxman Bisan Murmu, Headmaster of Hijili Primary School under Bangiriposhi block and Bangiriposhi Primary School Teachers’ Association president, to process the file for sanction of annual increment of 94 teachers including Murmu for 2018 due from March 1, 2018.
The services of the 94 teachers had been regularised from March 1, 2017 and their next annual increment was due from March 1, 2018.
Behera’s residential house at Baripada town and office room at Bangiriposhi were also searched. He was arrested and forwarded to court.