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Odisha Vigilance officials on Tuesday apprehended a Village Agriculture Worker (VAW) in Angul district while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from an NGO representative.
The accused has been identified as Biswanath Das, posted as VAW for Kadalimunda, Raniakota, and Dhaurapalli gram panchayats under Kishorenagar block. He was caught red-handed while demanding and accepting the bribe from an empanelled NGO of the government to countersign utilisation certificates related to the distribution of seeds and pesticides to farmers.
According to Vigilance sources, Das was part of the seed and pesticide distribution group...