India, Aug. 1 -- A peon in Odisha's Gajapati district was arrested for allegedly giving a bottle of urine to his senior officer instead of drinking water.

The accused, identified as Siba Narayan Nayak, was employed at the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) Department, India Today reported.

The incident took place on the night of July 23, when both the peon and his senior, Assistant Executive Engineer Sachin Gouda, were working at the RWSS office in R Udayagiri.

Gouda had asked Nayak for a bottle of drinking water. However, the latter allegedly handed him a bottle that had urine, according to the India Today report. Gouda, who was engaged in his work, drank from the bottle.

However, a while later, Gouda started to feel unwell and...