Telangana Grama Palana Officer demands Rs 22,000 bribe, arrested

The officer demanded in return for submitting a report to higher authorities to correct the complainant’s father’s name in revenue records.

Hyderabad: The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a Grama Palana Officer (GPO) for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 22,000 in Mancherial district on Thursday, October 29.

D Srinivas works in the Adilabad range. He demanded the bribe money in return for submitting a report to higher authorities to correct the complainant’s father’s name in revenue records.

The correction was intended to enable the complainant and his brother to obtain succession rights over agricultural land.

ACB officials recovered the tainted amount from his possession.

The government officer was produced before the Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases in Karimnagar and sent to judicial remand.