By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: On 23.06.2026 late night, Prasanna Kumar Pattnaik, Executive Engineer, RWD-I, Rayagada, Dist-Rayagada, has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and taking bribe Rs. 2,00,000/- from a Contractor in lieu of clearing bills for work done and for issuing work experience certificate in his favour to facilitate participation in a tender process and for grant of work contract.
The contractor had been requesting accused EE Sri Pattnaik for some time past to issue work experience certificate in his favour. In exchange for issuing the said certificate in favour of the contractor, accused Sri Pattnaik demanded bribe Rs.2.5 Lakhs in lieu of bills worth Rs.50 Lakhs( @5% of Rs.50 Lakhs) cleared and for issuance of the certificate to enable him to participate in fresh tender.But, the contractor expressed his inability to pay the demanded bribe Rs 2.5 Lakhs. However, on negotiation, Sri Pattnaik reduced the bribe amount to Rs. 2 Lakhs. Aggrieved over the demanded bribe, the contractor (Complainant) alerted the vigilance authorities. Following this, last night, a team of Odisha Vigilance nabbed Sri Pattnaik, while taking bribe Rs 2 Lakhs from the complt. *The entire tainted bribe money Rs.2 Lakhs has been recovered from the possession of Sri Pattnaik and seized*.
