Odisha Vigilance apprehends OREDA assistant director while accepting Rs 10,000 bribe

The Odisha Vigilance on Wednesday apprehended an Assistant Director of the Odisha Renewable Energy Pattern Agency (OREDA) while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a non-public agency for facilitating the liberate of pending bills.

The accused, is called Simadri Srikanta Rao, Assistant Director (Technical), OREDA, was once caught red-handed while taking the bribe for signing a performance certificate required for the liberate of the balance price related to the set up of a 60 KW portray voltaic energy plant on the Water and Land Administration Institute (WALMI) in Cuttack.

Per Vigilance officials, Rao had been disturbing a bribe of Rs 30,000 from the manager of the agency for clearing the pending dues, despite completion of the work. Following negotiations, he reportedly agreed to accept Rs 10,000.

Aggrieved by the demand, the executant approached the Vigilance authorities, who laid a entice and apprehended the accused while he was once accepting the bribe amount. Your complete contaminated money was once recovered from Rao’s possession and seized.

Following the arrest, simultaneous searches had been launched at three places linked to the accused to probe conceivable disproportionate property.

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A case has been registered in opposition to Rao on the Bhubaneswar Vigilance Police Build of dwelling under Portion 7 of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018. Extra investigation is underway.