Greed lands AG official in jail; arrested while receiving bribe to pass medical bill

By Prabhat Kumar Singh

Bhubaneswar, Nov. 3: You can safely call it the punishment for sin. The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested an Assistant Audit Officer, (PAG-Audit-1) for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 6,500 from a person in Bhubaneswar.

The accused was identified as Santosh Kumar Panigrahy.

According to the CBI, a case was registered based on a complaint against Panigrahy in Bhubaneswar.

The allegations revolve around the accused demanding a bribe of Rs 6,500 from a complainant in exchange for not raising any audit objections regarding the medical bills of the complainant’s office.

Furthermore, it was alleged that the accused demanded this bribe of Rs 6,500, which amounted to 10 per cent of the total medical bill of Rs 65,000, as he had refrained from objecting to the medical bills during the audit.

“The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 6,500 from the complainant. Searches were conducted at the premises of the accused at Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam which led to recovery of documents related to immovable properties,” a CBI official said.