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ACB nabs Irrigation official in Hyderabad

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Acb Nabs Irrigation Official

Hyderabad/ Secunderabad: Telangana Anti corruption bureau(ACB) is raising a red flag among the corrupt officials through a continuous spree of arresting tainted officials, In one such, recent incident, an executive engineer in the irrigation department was nabbed by ACB net on Friday. The tainted official was caught red handed while accepting a bribe of Four lakhs.

According to the law enforcement agency, the accused officer Yatha Pavan Kumar, Deputy Executive Engineer was caught red handed by ACB, Hyderabad City Unit 1 when he demanded five lakhs and accepted the bribe amount of four lakhs from the complainant, Gopagani Ramanamurthy. The accused was taken into custody from his office located in Buddha Bhavan at Secunderabad.

The complainant, who was a builder, approached the official for No Objection Certificate (NOC) for a commercial building he was constructing in Uppal. The ACB said, “To process and forward the NOC permission file for the construction of a commercial building situated at Shanthi Nagar, Uppal Bhagath Village, Uppal, Medchal-Malkajgiri District, the official demanded Five lakhs for the same.”

“The bribe amount was recovered from the possession of the accused at his instance. Right hand Fingers of the accused and contact portion ie. The right side first drawer of AO’s office table yielded a positive result in a chemical test,” said ACB in an official statement.

Further ACB arrested Yatha Pavan Kumar and produced before the Principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB cases, Court at Nampally in Hyderabad. The agency is further investigating the case.

Earlier cases

Earlier, ACB has also recovered crores worth of properties from tainted officials and opened disproportionate assets cases against them. Among such cases, one case is former sub-registrar of Mahbubabad, Taslima Mohammed, where ACB recovered at least 3 crores worth of disproportionate assets from her, the value of properties also could increase in terms of market value.

ACB requested the public to approach them if any government official demands a bribe through their toll free number of A.C.B, i.e. 1064. Further assured to take stringent action as per the law of land.