Bhubaneswar: Odisha Vigilance sleuths have arrested a Tata Power official on charges of bribery and corruption in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday night. The accused official was identified as Tusharkant Ray, Executive Engineer (Quality), Circle-1 of TPCODL Bhubaneswar. He was caught while taking Rs 20,000 bribe from a contractor for furnishing final inspection report for electricity supply to installed transformer.

Following the arrest, simultaneous searches were carried out at three locations associated with Ray from disproportionate assets (DA) angle. During house search, Rs 9.53 lakh cash was unearthed

As per reports, the contractor (complainant) was asked by Ray to pay an amount of Rs 20,000 in order to get the final inspection report in his favour for the transformer installed by the forme

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