
Hyderabad: The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday, July 16, arrested two Irrigation department officials from Adilabad for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 60,000.
The accused have been identified as Sri Rathod Vittal, Executive Engineer and Rupavathi Ramesh, Assistant Engineer.
According to the ACB, the accused had demanded the bribe for issuing a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to enable the complainant and his brothers to construct a poultry farm on their agricultural land situated at Sonal village, Adilabad district, as a small canal passes adjacent to the said agricultural land.
The accused will be produced before a special ACB court in Karimnagar for judicial remand.