Hyderabad, July 17: Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Veeravalli Kanakaratnam, Engineer-in-Chief at Panchayat Raj Engineering Department, for demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹50,000.
According to the ACB, the accused officer demanded money in return for extending an official favour related to the transfer and posting of the complainant.
The tainted amount was recovered from him. Following the arrest, the officer was produced before court and remanded to judicial custody.
Further investigations in the case are under way.
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