Cuttack: Vigilance sleuths Friday arrested an electrical junior engineer (JE) on charges of accepting bribe to facilitate electricity connection to a house in Cuttack.
The accused official has been identified as Bhabani Shankar Mohanta who serves as a junior engineer at Godisahi electrical section in Cuttack.
Acting on a complaint lodged by Bijaya Patra, a resident of Malasahi under Manglabag police limits, a team of vigilance sleuths laid a trap to catch the JE red-handed.
As per the plan, the officials of vigilance Cuttack division caught the JE while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a person to facilitate electricity connection to a house located near Trisulia in Cuttack.
A case has been registered against Mohanta in this connection.
Notably, vigilance sleuths November 14 caught an assistant sub-inspector of police (ASI) red-handed for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 to manipulate a chargesheet.
PNN
