The security manager of the nationalised Union Bank here was arrested by the CBI while taking bribe taking bribe of `40,000 at his residence on Friday.
The accused Subrat Kumar Mishra is posted as security manager at the regional headquarters of the bank near CRPF Square.
He was forwarded to a local court. Besides, CBI sleuths searched his house behind Nuapalli lIC Colony and ancestral house.
According to CBI sources, the Top Guard security agency provides security to all ATMs of the Union Bank in the State. The agency had a payment due of Rs 5 lakh with the bank.
Mishra had allegedly asked an official of the agency, Praveen Kumar Tripathy,
for bribe of `40,000 to get the bill passed.
Tripathy lodged a complaint with CBI office here, following which the anti-corruption unit officials laid a trap. Mishra was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe. Since, there was a bank strike on Friday, he had asked Tripathy to give the money at his residence.