Watch: Caught red-handed, corrupt official breaks down in Karimnagar district, video goes viral

A Revenue official caught red handed while accepting bribe in Huzurabad RDO office, breaks down and his video goes viral

Karimnagar: A revenue official broke down after being caught red-handed while accepting a bribe in Huzurabad town, The video of the apparently terrified official has gone viral on social media platforms.

The video shows the official, Sandeep, camp clerk to the Revenue Divisional Officer in Huzurabad being held by plainclothes officers advising him to dip his hands in two glasses of water to perform the ‘phenolphthalein test’, after he accepted the tainted currency wad laced with a chemical substance.

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On touching water with traces of the chemical on hands, the water turns pink and is used as a conclusive proof of the bribe money being accepted. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) usually hands over the demanded bribe amount to the complainant after applying a thick coat of the invisible chemical to the currency notes.

After the complainant hands over the bribe money to the official, the ACB officials, who lay in wait in plainclothes swoop down on him, on receiving a signal from the complainant about the ‘tainted’ money being accepted. The wads of currency is recovered and the bribe seeker official is made to dip his hands in water in two glasses.

The pink colour water is then sealed along with the wads of currency notes, whose numbers are noted down and submitted to the court as an ‘irrefutable’ and conclusive evidence of the bribe being accepted.

In the currenet case, the RDO’s camp clerk (or assistant) Sandeep was accused of having demanded and accepted Rs 75,000 bribe from a farmer for doing an official favour of ‘nala conversion’. The arrested official is being produced before a court.