Vigilance officials of Keonjhar district on Tuesday arrested Nesco Executive Engineer Dipak Kumar Sahu while he was accepting bribe from a local contractor at his office at Joda.
Vigilance sources said Sahu had demanded Rs 30,000 from Sangam Keshari Das, owner of the Jyostna Electrical Appliances to approve the estimate for a project.
The contractor informed the Vigilance officials who laid a trap and caught Sahu red-handed while he was accepting the bribe.
The anti-corruption agency officials later arrested Sahu.
Vigilance officials conducted simultaneous raid on the rented house of Sahu in Keonjhar and his residential house in Bhubaneswar.