Officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday caught T. Sundupalli Mandal Revenue Officer (MRO) G. Ravi and Revenue Inspector (RI) Kiran of Annamayya district while they were allegedly accepting ₹40,000 bribe for the mutation of records of a parcel of land.
The complainant, a resident of Yerramanenipalem village, had applied for mutation and pattadar passbook of his father’s land at T. Sundupalli tahsildar office. The MRO and the RI allegedly demanded ₹80,000 for processing the application. Following a complaint to ‘14400’, Kadapa ACB officials laid a trap and arrested the MRO and RI while they were accepting ₹40,000 and arrested them.
In another trap, ACB sleuths caught Satyavolu Sachivalayam Village Revenue Officer (VRO) P. Venkateswarlu of Nadendla mandal in Palnadu district when he was allegedly taking ₹5,000 as bribe, for issuing pattadar passbook, to a villager.
The VRO had demanded ₹25,000 for processing the mutation of land and for issuing pattadar passbook. He had accepted ₹10,000 as first instalment. As Venkateswarlu was harassing the villager to pay the remaining sum, the latter approached the ACB, which caught the VRO red handed, ACB officials said in a release on Saturday.
The accused were arrested and would be produced before the ACB court, the investigation officers said.
