Hyderabad: The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday, January 21, conducted raids at properties linked to suspended Hanamkonda Additional Collector, A Venkat Reddy, in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case, revealing assets worth Rs 7.69 crore.
Searches were conducted at the officer’s house and seven other locations belonging to him and his relatives.
According to a release from the ACB, they uncovered documents revealing ownership of the officer and his family members over a villa and a flat worth Rs 4.65 crore, a commercial shop worth Rs 60 lakh, eight open plots valued at Rs 65 lakh and 14.25 acre of agricultural land valued at Rs 50 lakh.
The market value of these assets is expected to be much higher than their official value.
ACB officials also seized the officer’s movable assets, including Rs 30 lakh in cash, Rs 44 lakh in the bank, household articles worth Rs 11 lakh, three four-wheelers worth Rs 40 lakh and 297 gram of gold ornaments valued at Rs 4.35 lakh.
Officer was previously arrested in December
ACB had previously searched the officer’s properties in December last year, seizing Rs 30 lakh and foreign liquor from his residence. This action was taken just a day after the officer was caught taking a Rs 60,000 bribe for processing the renewal of a school contract on December 5.
Reddy, who also served as the in-charge District Education Officer (DEO) of Hanamkonda, had demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from the correspondent of Creative Model School at Kothur Jenda area, but then reduced the amount after repeated requests.
He was arrested along with the educational department’s junior assistant, Kanneboina Manoj, and senior assistant, Mohammed Ghousuddin.
At the time, ACB deputy superintendent of police Sambaiah had said that Reddy was previously booked in a DA case in 2008 in Nalgonda and had also faced corruption charges in the ring road land acquisition when he was serving as Jangaon Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO).
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