The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Friday arrested three government officials - a prohibition and excise sub-inspector, a village revenue officer (VRO) and a mandal surveyor-- while they were accepting bribe to grant official favours.
According to ACB officials, They caught Panuganti Sunil Kumar, mandal surveyor of Yemmiganur in Kurnool district for accepting Rs 28,000 as bribe from from a person for surveying the latter’s land at Kalugotla Village in Yemmiganur mandal. The bribe amount was recovered from him. He was arrested and produced before the special court for ACB cases in Kurnool.
The officials also caught G Ramulu, 51, a prohibition and excise sub-inspector of Morthad in Nizamabad district red-handed at his residence when he was accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a person for not registering a case against him for selling toddy. The person was accused of selling toddy at his house in Donkal village of Morthad mandal.
The bribe amount was recovered from Ramulu, who was arrested and produced before the first additional special judge for ACB cases in Hyderabad.
In another incident, P Raghu Babu, VRO of Srikakulam village in Ghantasala mandal of Krishna district was caught red-handed by the ACB officials at his office when he accepted a bribe of `7,500 from one P Smbasiva Rao, a tractor owner of Achampalem, for not registering cases against him in a sand mining offence.
A chemical test performed on the accused official yielded a postive result. The bribe amount was recovered from his shirt pocket. Raghu Babu was arrested and produced before the ACB Court, Vijayawada.