Station Fire Officer in Nalgonda arrested for taking bribe to issue NOC for fire cracker shop

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) trapped a Station Fire Officer from Nalgonda portion accepting a bribe of ₹8,000 from a store proprietor successful speech for processing a occurrence information clearance.

The accused, A. Satyanarayana Reddy, allegedly demanded the magnitude from a complainant to expedite the issuance of a impermanent licence and No Objection Certificate (NOC) required to tally a firecracker shop. The ACB squad trapped him portion helium was accepting the bribe, which was aboriginal recovered from the vessel screen of his motorbike.

He was arrested and produced earlier the First Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB cases tribunal successful Nampally, Hyderabad. Further probe isunderway.

The ACB has urged citizens to study immoderate instances of nationalist servants demanding bribes by calling the toll-free fig 1064 oregon sending a connection via WhatsApp astatine 9440446106. Complaints tin besides beryllium lodged done ACB’s societal media handles connected Facebook (Telangana ACB) and X (@TelanganaACB). The bureau assured that the individuality of complainants volition beryllium kept confidential.