Koraput : Vigilance sleuths arrested Jeypore TPSODL Electrical SDO K Srinivas Patra for allegedly accepting a bribe from a man to provide him a job in the department.
As per reports, Patra had demanded Rs 20,000 from the complainant on the pretext of appointing him as a ladder man with the office of SDO electrical TPSODL.
The officials of the anti-corruption wing caught the government official red-handed while he was receiving the graft and arrested him.
Meanwhile, the anti-corruption agency has also launched simultaneous searches at the properties associated with Patra along with his powerhouse colony house, ancestral house and office following his arrest.
