Bhubaneswar: A government doctor was arrested in Bhubaneswar for allegedly taking a Rs 30,000 bribe from an NGO, officials said.
Acting on a complaint, Odisha Vigilance officers caught an assistant surgeon of the Capital Hospital while allegedly accepting a bribe for signing work certificates of NGO employees to facilitate the release of their salaries for June and July, they said.
The NGO had been engaged by the hospital to assist unidentified and destitute patients visiting the casualty ward for treatment.
The NGO had been requesting the doctor to sign the work certificates since June, but he allegedly demanded Rs 30,000 for doing so, officials said.
The anti-corruption agency subsequently conducted simultaneous searches at three locations linked to the doctor, they said.
In a separate case, the Vigilance Department arrested a former secretary of Tusura Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society (PACS) in Bolangir district for alleged financial irregularities during the 2014-15 Kharif Marketing Season, officials said.
During the investigation, it was found that a substantial quantity of paddy procured with government funds was neither delivered to millers nor accounted for in the society’s stock records, they said.
The alleged non-delivery of paddy and fraudulent accounting caused a financial loss of Rs 42.31 lakh to the society, they added.