Bhubaneswar, Sept. 13 -- The anti-corruption Vigilance wing of Odisha police on Thursday caught an administrative officer, who topped the State civil services examination in 2019, red-handed while allegedly demanding and receiving a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a complainant for conversion of agriculture land into homestead plot, the officials said today.
The bribe-taking Odisha Administrative Officer Aswini Kumar Panda (33), currently posted as Tahasildar, in Bamra under Sambalpur district, topped in Odisha Civil Services in 2019.
"The accused OAS officer was apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 15,000 from the complainant for conversion of agricultural land to homestead land in a mutation case. For about ...