Overview
- The Anti-Corruption Bureau’s Khammam range arrested Thammisetty Suresh after catching him accepting ₹25,000 in cash as a bribe at Mudigonda’s Rythu Vedika.
- ACB officers say the money was demanded to process a building permission and to allot a house number for a one-room sheet-roofed house on a five-gunta plot in Bhanapuram village.
- The tainted cash was recovered at the scene and the accused was produced before the Special Court for SPE and ACB cases in Warangal.
- Investigators have launched a probe and are withholding the complainant’s identity for security reasons while the case moves through the ACB process.
- Panchayat secretaries handle local permits and house numbering, which creates routine points of contact where petty graft can occur and where the ACB has been focusing enforcement.