Shamirpet tahsildar, driver land in ACB net while taking Rs 10 lakh bribe
The bribe amount of Rs 10 lakhs was accepted by Bhadri and was recovered from his possession.
By Newsmeter Network Published on 13 Feb 2024 10:09 AM GMT
Hyderabad: On Tuesday at 1 pm, officials of the ACB’s central investigation unit (CIU) caught the tahsildar of Shamirpet Mandal in Medchal Malkajgiri District and his driver red-handed at the tahsildar's office while accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakhs.
The accused have been identified as tahsildar Thodeti Satyanarayana and his driver P Bhadri. The issue came to light after Movva Ramaseshagiri Rao, a resident of My Home Bhooja, Gachibowli in Hyderabad, filed a complaint against Satyanarayana for asking a bribe to perform an official duty i.e. ‘to write a report in complainant’s favour and to forward the file to collector for issue of Pattadar passbooks, pertaining to complainant’s lands.’
The bribe amount of Rs 10 lakhs was accepted by Bhadri and was recovered from his possession. Both his hands tested positive in the phenolphthalein test. During the interrogation, Bhadri confessed to having received the bribe amount on the instructions of tahsildar Thodeti Satyanarayana. A case has been registered.
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