‘My dream has always been to do something significant’: Old video of IAS officer caught in bribe case goes viral

Bhubaneswar: An old video of an IAS officer, who was recently caught by Odisha Vigilance Department in a bribe case, has gone viral on social media.

An official release stated that the Odisha Vigilance Department Sunday caught the IAS officer allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a businessman.

“The IAS officer, who is posted as sub-collector, Dharamgarh in Kalahandi district, has been caught red handed while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a local businessman, as an instalment of the overall demand of Rs 20 lakh bribe…,” the department said in the release.

The accused officer, in his mid-30s, “called the complainant to his official government residence at Dharamgarh, received the bribe amount… and kept the same inside his table drawer”, it said.

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The old video of the sub-collector is going viral on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The video was shared by Twitter handle @gemsofbabus_.The video appears to have been recorded after the sub-collector cleared the UPSC examination.

Watch the viral video:

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