Berhampur: Odisha Vigilance on Thursday nabbed a junior engineer for taking bribe in connection with plan approval of a building.
Sagarika Mohanty, JE, NAC, Buguda in Ganjam district has been apprehended by the Vigilance sleuths while demanding and accepting bribe Rs.4,000 from a complainant for processing the file of the plan approval of the building in favour of his father.
The entire bribe money has been recovered from the accused Miss Mohanty and seized.
Following the trap, simultaneous searches are going on at two locations of Mohanty from DA angle, the Vigilance said.
In this connection, Berhampur Vigilance P.S Case No.21 Dt. 01.11.2023 U/s 7 P.C Amendment Act, 2018 has been registered. Investigation is in progress against the accused JE, it added.