Assistant Engineer, RWSS Section, Boudh, Bhabagrahi Samantaray was arrested on Monday in a bribery case.He was nabbed by the Vigilance for demanding and accepting Rs 50,000 from complainant Mitrabhanu Pradhan of Gobindapur, Boudh to prepare a bill for a solar water supply plant at Janhapa under Khuntabandha panchayat which Pradhan had executed. The trap was laid on Monday after a complaint by Pradhan. A case was registered against Samantaray and he was to be forwarded to court.
In another case, Sub-Inspector of Excise, Jagatsinghpur Ranjit Kumar Mohanty was arrested for demanding and accepting Rs 3,000 bribe from complainant Laxmidhar Moharana of Daraba village under Tirtol police station in order to return a Sony Deck and LCD which had been taken forcibly without any seizure on October 29, 2018 while seizing an Indigo car containing liquor. A case was registered by the Cuttack Vigilance, which conducted the trap on Mohanty.