Mavala Tahsildar, RI land in ACB net

Adilabad: Sleuths of the Anti-Courruption Bureau (ACB) took Mavala mandal Tahsildar Arifa Sulthana along with revenue inspector (RI) Hanumanthu into their custody on Sunday after her conduit RI was caught red-handed at her office while he was taking a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from one farmer Yathindranath Yadav.

According to the ACB team led by DSP Ramana Murthy, both Tahsildar demanded bribe from Yadav for making corrections in his four pattadar passbooks (PPBs) related to 14 acres of land located in the Mavala Gram Panchayat limits and subsequently, the farmer approached the ACB officials, who laid a trap and caught the RI them red-handed.