Overview
- Hyderabad ACB officers arrested Endowments inspector Akavaram Kiran Kumar while taking a ₹50,000 part payment of a ₹1.50 lakh demand for a land survey report, and produced him before the special SPE/ACB court at Nampally.
- A Tahsildar in Nagireddypet mandal, Kamareddy district, was caught accepting ₹50,000 through a private person to write a favourable report for transferring agricultural land to the complainant’s name.
- In Udhampur, J&K, patwari Pardhan Singh was trapped while accepting ₹5,000 after allegedly demanding ₹10,000 for issuing a Virasati Intkal and a certified copy, with a case also registered against the concerned Girdawar.
- Three panchayat officials in Telangana’s Nandigama mandal were arrested over a ₹2.50 lakh bribe tied to house-building permissions, with ₹1 lakh recovered and all three produced before the ACB court.
- Across the cases, tainted cash was recovered, FIRs were registered, investigations are underway, and the ACB urged citizens to report bribe demands via toll-free 1064, WhatsApp, Facebook or X with confidentiality assured.