Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance arrested Khandapada Tahasildar Dhobei Nayak for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 20,000.

The Vigilance also nabbed one more person namely Prasanna Kumar Sahoo while he was accepting the bribe amount as per instruction of the Tahasildar.

According to reports, Nayak had demanded a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a complainant to release his seized sand-laden Hyva.

The Vigilance team recovered entire bribe money from Sahoo and registered a case under section 7 PC (Amendment Act), 2018 against both Khandapada Tahasildar and his aide.

Following the recovery of the bribe amount, the Vigilance sleuths conducted simultaneous searches at three locations of Nayak to probe into the disproportionate assets (DA) angle.