Bhawanipatna, November 4: A Special Vigilance court on Wednesday sentenced former gram Rojgar Sevak (GRS), Santanu Nag, to three years' simple imprisonment in a bribery case.

According to a statement issued by the Vigilance Directorate, Nag, now disengaged from service, was charge sheeted by Odisha Vigilance in a case U/s 7 PC (Amendment)Act, 2018 for demanding and taking bribe from a beneficiary under MGNREG scheme to prepare the muster roll and to make online transfer of the wage amount to the accounts of labourers engaged in the "Land Development" work of his land.

He was convicted by Special Judge, Vigilance, Bhawanipatna on Wednesday and sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of three years and fine.

Nag was serving at the Balsi gram panchayat under Kesinga block of Kalahandi district when he was nabbed by Vigilance sleuths for taking bribe from the MHNREGS beneficiary.