Overview
- District Fisheries Officer M. Charitha Reddy was arrested in Nalgonda for allegedly taking Rs.20,000 to approve new members in a fisheries cooperative, with the cash recovered from her handbag.
- A special ACB court in Nampally remanded Charitha Reddy to judicial custody following her production by investigators.
- In Nizamabad, senior assistant and in-charge revenue inspector Karna Srinivas Rao was held while accepting Rs.7,000 after an alleged demand of Rs.10,000, and the tainted money was recovered.
- Rao was produced before the special court for SPE and ACB cases in Nampally, and the bureau said further investigation is under way.
- In Mancherial, Panchayat Secretary Akkala Venkat Swamy was arrested in a Rs.20,000 case tied to processing Indiramma Indlu construction documentation, with the cash seized on-site.