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Two Forest Department officials were arrested by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) connected Thursday portion accepting a bribe of ₹3.5 lakh successful Bhadradri Kothagudem district.
The accused were identified arsenic Santhapuri Sujatha, Forest Divisional Officer (FDO), Bhadrachalam, and Bhukya Krishna, Deputy Range Officer of Tegada and in-charge Forest Range Officer of Charla. According to the ACB, the duo was trapped astatine the Forest Divisional Office successful Bhadrachalam aft demanding and accepting the magnitude from a complainant.
The ACB said the officials sought wealth successful speech for not registering cases against the complainant implicit alleged harm to wood trees during the laying of a two-kilometre BT roadworthy from Pusuguppa colony successful Charla mandal to the Chhattisgarh border. The roadworthy enactment was completed successful 2025. The officials were besides accused of assuring the complainant that they would not interfere successful his contiguous and aboriginal works.
Investigators said the accused initially demanded ₹10 lakh but aboriginal reduced the magnitude to ₹3.5 lakh pursuing requests made by the complainant. The tainted currency was recovered from the Deputy Range Officer astatine the lawsuit of the Forest Divisional Officer.
The ACB stated that some officials had misused their authoritative positions to get undue advantage. They are being arrested and volition beryllium produced earlier the peculiar tribunal for SPE and ACB cases successful Warangal.
The lawsuit is nether investigation, portion the individuality of the complainant has been withheld for information reasons.
