3 officials held on bribery charges during ACB raids

A building inspector and two other officials working at Municipal Corporation in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh were Tuesday arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly taking bribe of Rs 3 lakh. 

T Madhusudan Prasad, Babu Rao and Srinivasulu Reddy demanded and accepted Rs 3 lakh as bribe from the complainant yesterday for not taking action against his newly constructed apartment, an ACB release said here on Tuesday.  The tainted amount of Rs 3 lakh was recovered from Reddy in the premises of municipal office after which the trio was arrested.

 Meanwhile, ACB officials arrested another government official K Ramakrishna Raju, a Surveyor at Revenue Divisional Office at Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district yesterday after he was trapped for allegedly taking Rs 10,000 as bribe from a complainant for doing official favour, the release added.  Both the cases are under investigation.

-PTI