Times of India | ACSO caught red-handed while taking bribe from farmers’ society

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In Keonjhar’s Champua block, vigilance officials caught Assistant Civil Supplies Officer Dhumaram Murmu red‑handed accepting a ₹15,000 bribe from a farmers’ cooperative society that was seeking payment for paddy procured through the Large Area Multipurpose Society (LAMPS). After a complaint by the LAMPS managing director, a sting operation and simultaneous raids uncovered the officer’s demand for illicit payments at several procurement centres and led to the seizure of disproportionate assets. A case has been filed against Murmu at Balasore Vigilance police station under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018, and investigations are ongoing; he is scheduled to retire in two years.

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Times of India | Former junior engineer gets 2-yr jail term for corruption

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A former junior engineer, Anup Kumar Das (69), from the Balisankara block of Sundargarh district, was found guilty by a special vigilance judge of misappropriating ₹1,560 of government funds meant for the excavation of Rapatjore pond under the Employment Assurance Scheme in 2001‑02. He forged labourers’ signatures and thumbprints on muster rolls to claim payments that were never made, and was consequently sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment, fined ₹5,000 and ordered to serve an additional two months if the fine is not paid. The conviction was under sections 13(2) read with 13(1)(c)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, and sections 409 and 477‑A of the IPC, with his time already spent in custody set off against the sentence. Odisha’s vigilance department said it will seek to stop his pension following the judgment.

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