Muniguda Health Worker Nabbed for Rs 6K Bribe Over Birth Certificate

Rayagada(OT Webdesk): Odisha Vigilance officials on Wednesday apprehended Kunja Bihari Rout, a Male Health Worker cum Clerk at Muniguda Community Health Centre (CHC), for accepting a bribe of Rs 3,000—the second instalment of a Rs 6,000 demand—for issuing a birth certificate.

The complainant, a poor farmer, had previously paid Rs 3,000 but was repeatedly harassed for the remaining amount.

Fed up, he approached Vigilance authorities, who laid a trap and caught Rout red-handed while accepting the final payment.

Officials recovered the entire bribe amount and have launched simultaneous searches at Rout’s properties to investigate disproportionate assets.

A case has been registered under Koraput Vigilance PS Case No. 27/2025, U/s 7 of the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018. Further investigation is underway.