Overview
- Multiple ACB units in Maharashtra and Telangana, which ran coordinated trap operations on Thursday, arrested public servants and recovered tainted cash as part of complaint-driven investigations.
- In Beed, Maharashtra, ACB Jalna arrested a junior education extension officer and an assistant teacher after a 57-year-old headmaster complained of a ₹40,000 demand linked to a Shalarth payroll inquiry and a ₹20,000 instalment was accepted during the sting.
- Telangana ACB City Range-II caught a TGSPDCL assistant engineer in Hyderabad accepting ₹1.20 lakh to sanction six new electricity meters and recovered the amount at his instance before moving the case to the special ACB court.
- Rangareddy and Karimnagar ACB teams arrested revenue officials in Keesara after recovering ₹2.5 lakh as part payment of a ₹5 lakh demand and detained a Tahsildar and a private operator in Vemulawada after an ₹8,000 land-registration bribe was recovered.
- All accused are under formal investigation and being produced for judicial remand before the Principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases, and the ACB is urging citizens to report bribery through its toll-free helpline 1064 as enforcement intensifies.