<p>Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Department on Sunday caught an IAS officer allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a businessman, an official release said.</p>.<p>Raids are underway at his official residence, from where Rs 47 lakh cash has already been recovered, it said.</p>.<p>“The IAS officer, who is posted as sub-collector, Dharamgarh in Kalahandi district, has been caught red handed while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a local businessman, as an instalment of the overall demand of Rs 20 lakh bribe…,” the department said in the release.</p>.Odisha govt to ban non-veg food, liquor near Jagannath temple in Puri: Minister.<p>The accused officer, in his mid-30s, “called the complainant to his official government residence at Dharamgarh, received the bribe amount… and kept the same inside his table drawer”, it said.</p>.<p>The department has registered a case against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act, and investigation is continuing, the release added. </p>
<p>Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance Department on Sunday caught an IAS officer allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a businessman, an official release said.</p>.<p>Raids are underway at his official residence, from where Rs 47 lakh cash has already been recovered, it said.</p>.<p>“The IAS officer, who is posted as sub-collector, Dharamgarh in Kalahandi district, has been caught red handed while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a local businessman, as an instalment of the overall demand of Rs 20 lakh bribe…,” the department said in the release.</p>.Odisha govt to ban non-veg food, liquor near Jagannath temple in Puri: Minister.<p>The accused officer, in his mid-30s, “called the complainant to his official government residence at Dharamgarh, received the bribe amount… and kept the same inside his table drawer”, it said.</p>.<p>The department has registered a case against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act, and investigation is continuing, the release added. </p>