HANAMKONDA : Warangal Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths on Friday trapped Hanamkonda Additional Collector A Venkat Reddy, who is also the district education officer, along with two education department junior assistants while he was accepting a bribe of `60,000.
According to Warangal Range ACB deputy superintendent of police P Sambaiah, the additional collector had demanded `1 lakh for granting permission to a private school. He accepted `60,000 through junior assistants Goush and Manoj.
Unwilling to pay the bribe, the complainant approached the ACB, which laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed.
The bribe amount was recovered from Venkat Reddy and the two junior assistants.
A case has been registered, and they were taken into custody.