Bhawanipatna, March 21: Odisha Vigilance on Thursday apprehended a high school headmaster while taking a bribe of Rs 40,000 in Odisha’s Kalahandi district.
Based on a contractor’s complaint, the vigilance sleuths trapped the accused, identified as Drona Kumar Tandi, HM of of Trishakti High School at Makaraguda under Kegaon police.
Sources said that the HM was receiving Rs 40,000 as bribe through bank deposit from a civil contractor for clearing running bill towards construction of the school building. After depositing the amount, the contractor handed over the counter foil of deposit slip of Rs 40,000 to the headmaster in his office chamber of the high school. Meanwhile he was trapped by the Vigilance team.
Following the trap, the vigilance sleuths conducted simultaneous searches on at two locations of Tandi from DA angle.
