Telangana: Former Thirumalagiri Tahsildar sentenced to one year jail in bribery case

A Nalgonda court sentenced former Thirumalagiri Tahsildar Srinivas Raju to one year of rigorous imprisonment in a 2011 bribery case. The ACB had trapped him for demanding ₹1 lakh to process land mutations and pattadar passbooks

Nalgonda: First additional special judge for SPE and ACB cases sentenced Ch Srinivas Raju, then Tahsildar of Thirumalagiri mandal in Nalgonda district, to one year rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case registered in 2014. On December 30, 2011, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials trapped Srinivas for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 1,00,000 from a complainant. The bribe was sought in exchange for facilitating mutation of agricultural lands in revenue records and issuing pattadar passbooks.

The court found the accused official guilty and convicted him under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Additionally, Srinivas was fined Rs 25,000 and in default of paying the fines, he faces an additional month of simple imprisonment.

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