IAS Officer Dhiman Chakma caught accepting Bribe in Odisha
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The Odisha Vigilance Directorate said its officials on Sunday evening caught an IAS officer allegedly in the act of accepting a Rs 10-lakh bribe from a businessman in Kalahandi district.
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The IAS Officer in news is Dhiman Chakma, a 2021-batch officer currently posted as a sub-collector at Dharamgarh in Kalahandi district. He has been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
“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.
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.
The department has registered a case against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act, and investigation is continuing, the release added.
According to Vigilance officials, Chakma had demanded a total of Rs.20 Lakh as Bribe. He allegedly accepted Rs 10 lakh as an instalment of a total demand of Rs 20 lakh. The businessman said that he was threatened by IAS Officer and forced to pay Bribe. He subsequently lodged a complaint with the Vigilance Directorate.
“The accused IAS officer called the complainant to his official government residence at Dharamgarh, received the bribe amount, verified the note bundles of different denominations with both his hands and kept the same inside his residence office table drawer. Both hand wash and table drawer wash gave positive chemical reaction,” said a Vigilance official.
During subsequent searches at his official residence, a further Rs 47 lakh in cash has also been recovered, Vigilance said. Further searches are in progress and will continue till Monday morning, said officials.
Chakma is a native of Kanchanpur in Tripura. He is A computer science graduate from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala. Earlier, he was posted as an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj before he made it to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
The video of bribe is going viral on social media and people are criticizing him for such act.