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A superintending technologist moving with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s Kukatpally portion was arrested by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026) portion allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹15 lakh for clearing authoritative bills.
The accused was identified arsenic P. Chinna Reddy, superintending engineer, attached to the bureau of the Zonal Commissioner, Kukatpally zone. He was trapped by the ACB officials astatine his bureau premises aft helium demanded the bribe from a complainant successful speech for verifying works executed and forwarding bills worthy ₹1.40 crore for approval.
The bribe magnitude was accepted done a machine operator, Balasani Praveen Kumar, who worked connected an outsourcing ground successful the aforesaid office. The tainted currency of ₹15 lakh was recovered from the possession of the machine operator.
Both the accused were taken into custody and were produced earlier the peculiar tribunal for SPE and ACB cases astatine Nampally for judicial remand. Further probe is underway. The individuality of the complainant was withheld for information reasons.
Telangana ACB interaction details
The ACB reiterated its entreaty to the nationalist to study instances of bribery involving nationalist servants. Citizens tin interaction the ACB done the toll-free fig 1064 oregon scope retired via WhatsApp, Facebook oregon X. Officials assured that the individuality of complainants would beryllium kept confidential.
