Bhubaneswar: A Special Vigilance court in Cuttack today convicted Laxmidhar Swain, a former Junior Clerk at the Collectorate Office, Jajpur, for accepting a bribe in exchange for issuing a registration certificate under the Societies Registration Act, 1960.

Swain, now retired, was charge-sheeted by the Odisha Vigilance under Sections 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) and 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, for demanding and accepting illegal gratification from a complainant.

The Special Judge, Vigilance, Cuttack sentenced Swain to two years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and imposed a fine.

Following the conviction, the Odisha Vigilance Directorate announced that it would move the competent authority to stop the pension of the convicted official, in line with the state government’s zero

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