India, April 19 -- Vigilance sleuths today arrested the Additional Tahasildar of Maneswar in Sambalpur district of Odisha for demanding and accepting Rs 6,000 as bribe for conversion of a piece of agricultural land to homestead plot.

The Vigilance officials have seized the entire bribe amount from Maneswar Additional Tahsildar Bhubanananda Sahu.

According to the Vigilance, Sahu, an Odisha Revenue Service (ORS) officer, had sought Rs 10,000 as bribe from a private individual for conversion of his agricultural land to non-agricultural (homestead) purpose and issuance of Records of Rights (ROR) in his favour.

Sahu allegedly refused to do the work unless the bribe is not paid to him. The private individual had lodged a complaint in this ...