Ashok Kumar Panda, Assistant Station Master, OSRTC, Angul, was arrested by Vigilance officials on Monday for taking bribe. A case had been registered on Saturday against Panda on a report of one Gouranga Charan Sahu (a contractual driver) of village Birabarpur under the Badamba PS, Cuttack district, for demand of bribe of `2,000 from him to entrust him regular duty.
Panda was caught red-handed while demanding and accepting the bribe in the office of DTM (Admn), OSRTC, Angul. The bribe money was recovered from his shirt pocket. Panda’s residential house at Pattamundai is under search.