DGP Sunil Kumar Bansal on Friday dismissed Vigilance Inspector Manasi Jena from service for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a Government official.
Jena was earlier arrested and remanded to judicial custody.
“After carefully analysing the facts and circumstances of the case and after due application of mind, I conclude that Inspector Manasi Jena deserves to be dismissed by exercising power vested under Article 311 (2) (b) of the Constitution in the Appointing Authority as it is not reasonably practicable to hold a departmental inquiry against Jena,” said an official order issued by the DGP.
Notably, Jena was caught red-handed by the Vigilance police on May 13 while accepting Rs 10 lakh from a Government official for closure of a case against the latter. She was allegedly accepting the money as bribe through her associate Mukesh Sahoo