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A Deputy Executive Engineer with Mission Bhagiratha (INTRA) successful Jangaon territory was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) connected Friday, for allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹10,000 done a integer transaction.
The accused, identified arsenic 45-year-old Kunamalla Sandhya Rani, was trapped by ACB Warangal officials astatine astir 5.10 p.m. astatine her bureau successful Palakurthy sub-division.
According to officials, Ms. Sandhya Rani had allegedly demanded the bribe from a complainant for checking measurements of M-Books and last bills related to 3 Mission Bhagiratha pipeline works executed astatine Devuruppula mandal, and forwarding them to the Executive Engineer. The bribe was reportedly transferred via PhonePe to the mobile fig of her backstage assistant, Mahendar.
Investigators said that the complainant had forwarded the PhonePe transaction screenshot to the officer’s telephone done WhatsApp. Sandhya Rani has been arrested and produced earlier the peculiar tribunal for SPE and ACB cases successful Warangal. The probe is ongoing, portion the individuality of the complainant has been withheld for information reasons.
The ACB has urged the nationalist to study immoderate request for bribes by nationalist servants done its toll-free fig 1064. Complaints tin besides beryllium lodged via WhatsApp, Facebook oregon X, with assurances that the individuality of complainants volition beryllium kept confidential.
