Hyderabad: ACB arrests four officials in separate bribery cases

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Wednesday caught two officials of the commercial tax department red handed when they allegedly demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs. 50,000.

Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Wednesday caught two officials of the commercial tax department red handed when they allegedly demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs. 50,000.

The two Mahaboob Basha, Assistant Commissioner (ST) Malakpet II Circle, Hyderabad and Soma Shehkar, Assistant Tax Officer, Malakpet – II Circle had demanded the bribe for ‘issuing the letter to de-freeze the bank account of a person’, said the ACB in a press release. Both the officials were arrested and produced before the court.

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In another case, two sanitary field assistants of the GHMC Circle 18 were caught red handed when they demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs. 25,000 from a coffee shop owner. The amount was demanded by them for not imposing a fine on the shop, said ACB. The field sanitary field assistants – Mohd Saleem Khan and G Ramesh, were arrested before the court.