{"id":56273,"date":"2026-02-03T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=56273"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:15:56","slug":"malkangiri-tpsodl-jr-engineer-and-his-associate-arrested-by-odisha-vigilance-for-taking-bribe-rs-20000-in-lieu-of-providing-electricity-connection-to-bricks-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2026\/02\/03\/malkangiri-tpsodl-jr-engineer-and-his-associate-arrested-by-odisha-vigilance-for-taking-bribe-rs-20000-in-lieu-of-providing-electricity-connection-to-bricks-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"MALKANGIRI TPSODL JR. ENGINEER AND HIS ASSOCIATE ARRESTED BY ODISHA VIGILANCE FOR TAKING BRIBE RS.20,000\/- IN LIEU OF PROVIDING ELECTRICITY CONNECTION TO BRICKS FACTORY."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cuttack,3\/2\/2026 ( Odisha Samachar )-Today i.e. on 03.02.2026, Sri Pradesh Prasad Nayak, Jr.Engineer (JE), TPSODL, Malkangiri, Dist-Malkangiri and Sri Bhanjakishor Swain (Private Person) <strong>have<\/strong><strong>been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance for demanding and taking bribe Rs.20,000\/- (Rupees TwentyThousand) <\/strong><strong>from a Bricks Factory Owner in lieu of providing electricity connection to his Bricks Factory.<\/strong>However, both Sri Nayak, JE and Sri Bhanjakishor Swain demanded bribe Rs.20,000\/- from the Bricks Factory Owner and threatened him unless they were paid the demanded bribe, they would disconnect the electricity connection to his bricks factory.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-854 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Vigilance-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on the above complaint, a trap was laid on 03.002.2026, wherein the accused Sri Pradesh Prasad Nayak, JE and Sri Bhanjakishor Swain (Private Person)were<strong>nabbed <\/strong>by the team of Odisha Vigilance near main gate of the officefor demanding and taking undue advantage (bribe) of <strong>Rs.20,000\/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) <\/strong><strong>from the Bricks Factory Owner<\/strong><strong>. <\/strong>The entire bribe money was recovered and seized from their possession in presence of witnesses.Following the trap, <strong>simultaneous <\/strong><strong>searches have been launched<\/strong>on the rented residential house of Sri Nayak, JE at Malkangiriand his office room<strong>.<\/strong><strong>Both the a<\/strong><strong>ccused<\/strong><strong>persons namely Sri Pradesh Prasad Nayak, JE, TPSODL, Malkangiriand Sri Bhanjakishor Swain (Private Person)<\/strong><strong>have been arrested and will beforwarded to the Court<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this connection, KoraputVigilancePS Case No.01 dated 02.02.2026 U\/s 7Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 has been registered and is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuttack,3\/2\/2026 ( Odisha Samachar )-Today i.e. on 03.02.2026, Sri Pradesh Prasad Nayak, Jr.Engineer (JE), TPSODL, Malkangiri, Dist-Malkangiri and Sri Bhanjakishor Swain (Private Person) havebeen apprehended by Odisha Vigilance for demanding and taking bribe Rs.20,000\/- (Rupees TwentyThousand) from a Bricks Factory Owner in lieu of providing electricity connection to his Bricks Factory.However, both Sri Nayak, JE &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56279,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56273\/revisions\/56279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}