Overview
- The Anti‑Corruption Bureau’s Karimnagar unit conducted a trap that recovered ₹63,000 from Metpally Child Development Project Officer Daroju Padma and arrested her on allegation of accepting the cash.
- ACB says the officer had demanded ₹1,000 per month from each of 21 Anganwadi centres in Metpally Urban Mandal, a sum the agency calculated as ₹63,000 for three months.
- Padma was produced before the Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases in Karimnagar as the bureau opened a formal inquiry and seized the alleged tainted amount.
- The identity of the complainant who handed over the money has been withheld for security reasons and the ACB says further investigation is under way.
- Anganwadi centres provide frontline child and maternal welfare and a CDPO supervises inspections; alleged use of inspection powers to extract payments can weaken service quality and may prompt departmental and criminal action if proven.