Bhubaneswar: The Senior Clerk of the District Treasury Office, Kendrapara has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5000 to pass the pension bill of a retired teacher.
As informed by the Vigilance, Senior Clerk Samara Hembrum was demanding the amount from the complainant, the teacher’s husband. The bill was pending with Hembrum for the last two months.
The entire bribe money was recovered from Hembrum and seized. Following it, vigilance sleuths conducted a raid on Hembrum’s residential house at Kharinasi in Jambu of Kendrapara district.
A case in this connection has been registered Cuttack Vigilance Police Station and further investigation is in progress.
