Keonjhar: Odisha Vigilance Department sleuths on Thursday arrested Debashis Panda, Junior Revenue Assistant (JRA) in the Ghatagaon Tahasil office in Odisha’s Keonjhar district for allegedly demanding and accepting a Rs 10,000 bribe from a complainant for issuance of partition pattas (ROR) in favour of the latter and his siblings in two cases as per revenue law.
The entire bribe money has been recovered from the possession of the accused Panda and seized.
Following the trap laid to nab Panda, Vigilance sleuths are conducting simultaneous searches at three locations linked to Panda from the disproportionate asset (DA) angle.
A case (Balasore Vigilance P.S. Case No. 12, dated 31.5.2023) has been registered in this connection at the Balasore Vigilance police station under Sections 7 of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018. Further investigation is underway against the accused.
