ACB arrests three survey officials

Hyderabad: The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Wednesday arrested an assistant director of survey and land records in Nizamabad and two of his colleagues for accepting bribes from the complainant for an official favour. Assistant director Shyam Sundar Reddy was caught red-handed while accepting Rs 10,000 from D Rajender of Morthad mandal in Nizamabad to issue demarcation certificate and location sketch report for five guntas of land. The bribe amount was recovered from the office table drawer of the accused officer. Prior to this incident, on June 19, M Venkatesh, superintendent, and Raheema, who is a junior assistant, had also accepted Rs 3,000 and Rs 2,000 respectively to process the same file of the complainant. The three accused officials will be produced before the ACB court in Karimnagar for judicial remand.