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A Tahsildar and Joint Sub-Registrar of Pedda Vangara mandal successful Mahabubabad district, on with his backstage car driver, were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹15,000 connected Friday.
The accused officer, Veeraganti Mahendar, was trapped by the ACB Warangal Range astatine astir 4.22 p.m., aft demanding a bribe from a complainant to process onshore registration related to succession of ancestral cultivation property. The bribe was allegedly accepted done his backstage car driver, identified arsenic Thuppani Goutham. It was claimed that the wealth was sought to facilitate registration of cultivation onshore successful favour of the complainant’s husband.
The tainted magnitude was recovered from Goutham, pursuing which some the Tahsildar and his operator were arrested and produced earlier the peculiar tribunal for SPE and ACB cases successful Warangal. The probe is ongoing, and the individuality of the complainant has been withheld for information reasons.
Meanwhile, the ACB urged citizens to study immoderate request for bribes by nationalist servants connected its toll-free helpline 1064, oregon via societal media platforms including WhatsApp, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), assuring that the complainant’s individuality volition stay confidential.
