India, Feb. 3 -- Odisha Vigilance on Tuesday caught a Junior Engineer of TPSODL and his associate red-handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 for providing an electricity connection to a bricks factory in Malkangiri district.

Trap laid near TPSODL Office The accused have been identified as Pradesh Prasad Nayak, Junior Engineer (JE), TPSODL, Malkangiri, and Bhanjakishor Swain, a private individual. Acting on a complaint from a bricks factory owner, a Vigilance team laid a trap and apprehended the duo today, i.e., on February 3, 2026, near the main gate of the TPSODL office while they were receiving the bribe amount.

The entire tainted bribe amount of Rs 20,000 was recovered from the possession of the accused and seized ...