Bhubaneswar: A Special Vigilance court in Bhubaneswar sentenced former OAS officer Bijay Chandra Mohapatra, who served as joint secretary in the Agriculture department, to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case.

Benudhar Mohanty, former private secretary to the Director, Water Resources department, was also awarded a similar jail term. ADVERTISEMENT

The duo was charged by Odisha Vigilance under Sections 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d)/ 7 of PC Act,1988, for demanding and taking bribe from a passport applicant for issuing verification certificate under Tatkal scheme.

The court also imposed penalties on the two convicts.

Following their conviction, Odisha Vigilance will now move the competent authority for stopping pension of Mohapatra and Mohanty, a release said.

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