Bhubaneswar, June 24 -- An Executive Engineer of the Rural Development Department in Odisha's Rayagada was apprehended by Vigilance officials on Tuesday. He was nabbed while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from a local contractor.

The accused official has been identified as Prasanna Pattnaik. He got arrested exactly one week before his scheduled retirement.

The arrest was executed during a targeted trap after a contractor filed a complaint regarding the engineer demanding money to clear his pending bill.

Following Pattnaik's apprehension, Odisha Vigilance teams initiated simultaneous search operations at four locations associated with him to detect further financial irregularities. The raids were conducted across multiple loca...