Marketing secretary held on graft in Mancherial
Sharada was taken into custody when she was receiving the bribe from Vishweshwar for issuing an inspection report required to get a trading license.
Mancherial: An employee of the marketing department was arrested by sleuths of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 65,000 from a cotton trader here on Monday.
In-charge ACB Adilabad DSP Bhadraiah said that the accused public servant was Sharada, special grade secretary of the department. The complainant was Vishweshwar Rao from Gadderagadi in Ramakrishnapur.
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Sharada was taken into custody when she was receiving the bribe from Vishweshwar for issuing an inspection report required to get a trading license. She harassed the trader demanding a bribe of Rs 1 lakh for discharging her duties.
Vexed at her greed, the trader approached sleuths of ACB who in turn laid a dragnet. She agreed to give the report when the trader promised to pay Rs 80,000. She took Rs 15,000 as advance on February 14. A case was registered against her. She would be produced before a special court for ACB cases in Karimnagar on Tuesday.
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