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From high-ranking OAS officers and tehsildars to junior clerks, engineers, Anganwadi officials, and even police personnel, Odisha's anti-corruption wing has stepped up its crackdown on graft.
A string of bribery cases in the past few months highlights how corruption cuts across the state bureaucracy, sparing neither senior officials nor low-level staff. This also highlights the newly-formed BJP government's commitment to zero-tolerance to corruption.
The most high-profile arrest came in Sambalpur district, where Aswini Kumar Panda, an OAS officer and tehsildar of Bamra, was allegedly caught red-handed while accepting Rs 15,000...