Assistant Engineer Nusum Sudhakar Reddy caught demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 50k
Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Telangana, on Wednesday, April 15, caught an Assistant Engineer red-handed as he demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs 50,000.
He worked in the Municipal Administration Department of Huzurabad Municipality in Karimnagar and was accepting the bribe from a contractor.
The Assistant Engineer, Nusum Sudhakar Reddy, had demanded the bribe of Rs 50,000 “to record the works undertaken by him in the measurement book and process the final bill towards laying of storm water drain work executed by the contractor,” said an ACB official.
After receiving a complaint, the ACB booked a case and trapped the official when he took the bribe amount at the Road Transport Corporation (RTC) depot chowrasta on Wednesday.
The Assistant Engineer was subsequently arrested and produced before the ACB and the Special Police Establishment (SPE) in Karimnagar
.This post was last modified on April 15, 2026 5:49 pm