Head constable caught red-handed by ACB officials in Khammam

A head constable at two-town police station was caught red-handed by ACB officials at the police station here on Monday.

Khammam: A head constable serving at two-town police station in Khammam was caught red-handed by ACB officials on Monday.

The accused P Koteswara Rao, a writer at the station, was said to have demanded a bribe of Rs 1.50 lakh to issue notices under Section 41A of CrPC in a family dispute related to property. A case regarding the dispute was registered under IPC Sections 420, 406 and 506 at the two-town police station.

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Koteswara Rao was caught while accepting an amount of Rs 50,000 as initial payment from the complainant, Burle Vishnu of Ramchandraiah Nagar in the city, near Government Hospital in Khammam. The accused was arrested and would be produced before ACB court in Hyderabad, officials said.