Telangana Police officer caught red-handed by ACB in Kothagudem

Banala Ramu allegedly demanded Rs 20,000 from the complainant K Laxma Reddy, an advocate, for filing a charge sheet against some persons accused in a case.

Kothagudem: A Sub-Inspector of Police of Paloncha town police station, Banala Ramu, was caught red-handed by ACB sleuths at his house at Bapuji Nagar in the town on Thursday.

The accused allegedly demanded Rs.20,000 from the complainant K Laxma Reddy, an advocate, for filing a charge sheet against some persons accused in a case. The advocate’s client Seeram Sravani lodged the complaint with the police station in connection with the case. The bribe amount was found between a pipeline and the outer wall of the house in the wash area.

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The SI would be arrested and produced before third additional sessions judge for APE and ACB cases in Warangal, according to a release from ACB. Khammam-Kothagudem ACB DSP Y Ramesh and team trapped the SI.

Meanwhile, the advocate Laxma Reddy, who practices in the High Court, in a written complaint to ACB DGP, stated that he had obtained property attachment orders from Kothagudem court in a property dispute some time back.

In the due course an accused in the case bought the property for which attachment orders were issued by the court and Sravani objected to the property transaction. Then the accused Chava Srinivas Rao and others threatened her, following which she lodged a complaint with Paloncha town police on May 19 as well as with the SP on May 22, he said.

As there was no action from police, a private complaint was filed in Kothagudem court, which referred the case to Paloncha town police station and SI Ramu registered an FIR on July 12, Laxma Reddy stated.

The advocate further said that the SI told him that the accused Srinivas Rao (A4) enjoys political influence and got a case closed when Sravani lodged a complaint in the past.