Kendrapara, June 29: Odisha Vigilance on Saturday apprehended a Section Officer In Odisha’s Kendrapada district while demanding and accepting bribe from a complainant.
The accused has been identified as John William Barala, Section Officer of Office of Tahasildar in Pattamundai.
Acting on a tip-off, Vigilance conducted a raid and caught Baral red-handed while accepting a bribe amount of Rs 10,000 from a Complainant to issue certified copy of case record relating to partition of land.
The entire bribe money has been recovered from exclusive possession of Barala and seized.
Following the trap, simultaneous searches are going on at two locations of the accused from DA angle.
