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The Odisha Vigilance on Friday apprehended Aswini Kumar Panda, OAS, Tehsildar of Bamra in Sambalpur district, while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a complainant. Panda had demanded a bribe of Rs 20,000 for converting agricultural land into homestead land in a mutation case.
Acting on the complaint by the victim, a Vigilance team laid a trap and caught Panda red-handed while accepting the bribe amount of Rs 15,000 through his office driver, P Praveen Kumar, who has also been taken into custody. The entire tainted amount was recovered and seized.
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