The Vigilance police on Monday caught Alekh Gardia, Inspector-in-Charge of the Narsinghpur police station in Cuttack district, red-handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a person.
The police official had demanded the money from the complainant to arrest the accused persons involved in an SC, ST Act case registered by him at the Narsinghapur police station in September 2021.
Following the seizure of the bribe, a case under Section 7 of the PC (Amendment) Act 2018 has been registered against Gardia. Simultaneous searches were conducted at his official quarters at the Narsinghpur police station campus and his houses in native village in Bhandarimal in Sambalpur district.