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Odisha Vigilance nabs Revenue Inspector taking Rs 5,000 bribe
Odisha Vigilance caught Sarat Kumar Sethy, a Revenue Inspector at Tudigadia under Khaira Tahasil in Balasore, while he was accepting Rs 5,000 from Suresh Panda of Ogalpur village. Sethy had allegedly demanded…
The Story in Brief
Odisha Vigilance caught Sarat Kumar Sethy, a Revenue Inspector at Tudigadia under Khaira Tahasil in Balasore, while he was accepting Rs 5,000 from Suresh Panda of Ogalpur village. Sethy had allegedly demanded the bribe to issue a Record of Rights in a mutation case. Panda had repeatedly approached Sethy to transfer land to his grandfather's name, but the inspector refused without payment. Panda then contacted the Balasore Vigilance department, which set a trap and apprehended Sethy on Wednesday. A case has been registered under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018. Further investigation is ongoing.
The Indian Opinion
Every bribe, however small, eats at the trust citizens place in the system. The usual refrain that 'only big corruption matters' ignores how routine extortion blocks the poor from basic rights like land records. The applicant here did exactly what is needed: he reported the demand to the Vigilance department. Now the test is whether the investigation will look beyond this single payment, did Sethy have a pattern, and were other applicants similarly squeezed? One number will settle that: how many mutation cases crossed his desk in the past year.
Source: odishatv.in
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