Puri PEO held taking bribe

| | CUTTACK | in Bhubaneswar

The Vigilance police on Saturday caught Puri district’s Satyabadi block Alugum Gram Panchayat Executive Officer (PEO) Bhagaban Rath red-handed for demanding and accepting illegal gratification of Rs 20,000.

Rath was held taking the bribe from one Niranjan Biswal of Khanduala Sahi in Alugum GP for including the names of his family members in Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECS) list of 2011 Census and allotment of house under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) scheme.

A trap was laid and Rath was caught red-handed in his office room in Satyabadi block office while accepting the bribe. His residential house in Puri was searched. Rath was arrested and forwarded to court. He was remanded to judicial custody till May 18.