ACB traps senior assistant in Adilabad while accepting ₹2 lakh bribe to process land registration file

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Katkam Vidya Sagar Reddy

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested a elder adjunct successful the bureau of the Tahsildar astatine Bazarhathnoor successful Adilabad territory for demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹2 lakh for processing a onshore registration file.

The accused official, identified arsenic Katkam Vidya Sagar Reddy, Senior Assistant successful the Tahsildar’s office, was trapped connected Thursday, January 22, astatine astir 5.10 p.m. by ACB officials of the Adilabad scope portion accepting the bribe from a complainant.

The bribe was allegedly sought for processing and forwarding a record related to Sada Binama registration of 8.35 acres of onshore successful favour of the complainant located successful Survey No. 11/A astatine Balanpur Shivar.

ACB officials said the tainted bribe magnitude was recovered from the possession of the accused serviceman astatine his instance.

The accused volition beryllium produced earlier the peculiar tribunal for SPE and ACB cases astatine Karimnagar. The lawsuit is nether probe and the individuality of the complainant has been withheld for information reasons.

The ACB appealed to the nationalist to study demands for bribes by nationalist servants done its toll-free fig 1064, assuring confidentiality to complainants.

Published - January 23, 2026 07:22 p.m. IST

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