Traffic inspector suspended in Rs 25 lakh graft case

HYDERABAD: Rachakonda commissioner suspended LB Nagar traffic inspector Khaja Moinuddin for extorting Rs 25 lakh from a businessman.

The traffic inspector Moinuddin instructed his staff to intercept an Innova vehicle at Nagole on October 28.He then asked the vehicle owner Bandaru Kushalaiah, a rice businessman from Miryalguda who was carrying Rs 1.25 crore cash, to pay Rs 50 lakh as bribe to let him go without alerting I-T department. Scared, Kushalaiah then negotiated with Moinuddin and left the place after giving Rs 25 lakh to the inspector. Kushalaiah had collected the money from the wholesale merchants.

As the source of the money was legal, Kushalaiah approached Cyberabad traffic DCP A R Srinivas. Rachakonda commissioner

Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat

then conducted a departmental enquiry into the incident.Moinuddin, meanwhile, returned the ` 25 lakh to Kushalaiah on November 29.

“For misusing his official position and indulging in corrupt practices, I suspended inspector Khaja Moinuddin“, said Bhagwat.