Hyderabad: Four officials in ACB net

Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) here on Friday arrested four persons including Mansampally Gram Panchayat Village Secretary J Geetha, Village Deputy Sarpanch B Narasimha Yadav and Maheshwaram Mandal Panchayat Officer G. Srinivarulu for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.7.5 lakh from a complainant. Geetha, Yadav and Srinivasulu along with Mansampally Village Sarpanch husband K Ramesh […]

Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) here on Friday arrested four persons including Mansampally Gram Panchayat Village Secretary J Geetha, Village Deputy Sarpanch B Narasimha Yadav and Maheshwaram Mandal Panchayat Officer G. Srinivarulu for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.7.5 lakh from a complainant.

Geetha, Yadav and Srinivasulu along with Mansampally Village Sarpanch husband K Ramesh were caught red-handed at the separate places, according to a press release issued by the ACB. Geetha, Yadav and Ramesh were caught at the Mansampally Gram Panchayat office when they allegedly demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs.5.50 lakh from the complainant J. Muthyam Reddy, a records liaison officer of a real-estate company while Srinivasulu was caught at the MPDO office in Maheshwaram for reportedly accepting a bribe of Rs.2 lakh from the complainant’s friend J. Srinivas to allow their real estate venture in Mansampally village and not to create any hurdles.

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The ACB officials recovered the tainted amount from the possession of Geetha and Srinivasulu and produced them along with two other arrested persons – Yadav and Ramesh before the special court for ACB cases after which the court remanded them into judicial custody.

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