Guwahati: An IAS officer from Tripura, Dhiman Chakma, was allegedly caught by Odisha Vigilance Directorate officials on Sunday while accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe from a businessman in Kalahandi district.
According to officials, Chakma, a 2021-batch IAS officer, was nabbed on Sunday at his official residence in Dharamgarh while taking a bribe from a local businessman.
Currently posted as a sub-collector at Dharamgarh in Kalahandi district, he has been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Chakma is a native of Kanchanpur in Tripura. After clearing UPSC, the computer science graduate from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, was posted as an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj before he made it to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
According to Vigilance officials, Chakma allegedly accepted Rs 10 lakh as an instalment of a total demand of Rs 20 lakh from the businessman, who claimed he was threatened with action if he did not pay.
The businessman subsequently lodged a complaint with the Vigilance Directorate.
A formal FIR has been registered under the Vigilance Cell PS Case No. 6/2025. The charges fall under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, as amended in 2018, which pertains to public servants accepting undue advantages.
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“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, the official said.
