Overview
- The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Deputy Superintendent of Police Sankireddy Bheem Reddy on Monday evening and a designated ACB court remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody on Tuesday.
- ACB teams carried out coordinated searches at 16 locations across Telangana and Karnataka that recovered property documents, about Rs 3.6 lakh from the officer’s home, Rs 40 lakh from an alleged benamidar, roughly 2 kg of gold, about 20 kg of silver and bank balances.
- Investigators seized a handwritten personal diary that they say lists properties, investments, liabilities and names of alleged benamidars and used it to trace links between the officer and proxy owners.
- Officials estimate the market value of the uncovered assets in the hundreds of crores with media and ACB figures cited around Rs 200–300 crore, and the agency has referred recovered liquor to the Excise Department while continuing forensic asset valuation.
- The case tests legal steps used against benami holdings: forensic accounting, cross‑state property tracing and formal charge‑sheeting, and its progress will determine whether recovered assets are attached and lead to convictions.