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Three Panchayat officials, including a Mandal Parishad Development Officer, were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) connected Wednesday, for demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹2.50 lakh from a complainant.
The accused officials were identified arsenic Ponna Sumathi, Mandal Parishad Development Officer of Nandigama mandal, Vadthyavath Tej Singh, Mandal Panchayat Officer of Nandigama mandal, and Avula Chennaiah, Panchayat Secretary of Edulapally Panchayat.
According to the ACB, the officials had demanded a bribe for processing and issuing location gathering permissions for 4 plots for which the applicant had paid the requisite authoritative fee. They accepted a portion outgo of ₹1 lakh done the Panchayat secretary, Chennaiah. An earlier magnitude of ₹1.50 lakh had already been collected by the MPDO and MPO done the aforesaid intermediary.
The tainted bribe magnitude of ₹1 lakh was recovered from the possession of the Panchayat Secretary astatine his instance. All 3 accused were arrested and produced earlier the peculiar tribunal for SPE and ACB cases astatine Nampally. The individuality of the complainant has been withheld for information reasons.
The ACB has erstwhile again appealed to the nationalist to study immoderate request for bribe by nationalist servants by calling its toll-free fig 1064, assuring that the individuality of complainants volition beryllium kept confidential.
