Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths on Saturday apprehended a Junior Engineer (JE) of Odisha Life Irrigation Corporation Limited G. Boitai and contractor Srikant Pati while accepting a bribe of Rs 9,000 for sanctioning a borewell.
Sources said a complainant had applied for a borewell in Lift Irrigation Division, Nayagarh and was requesting them to sanction it in the name of his father.
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According to Vigilance, the complainant was directed by Boitai to give Rs 9,000 to contractor Pati. The Vigilance team caught them red-handed while accepting the bribe and apprehended them.
The bribe money was seized.
A case under Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 has been registered against them and a probe has begun.
