District Marketing Officer in ACB Net in Nirmal

Hyderabad: Thangadipally Srinivas, a District Marketing Officer in Nirmal district, was caught red handed by Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) when he allegedly demanded and accepted an amount of Rs.7,000 as bribe from the complainant.

Srinivas accepted for showing an official favour to issue weigh-man (dadval) license to the complainant. Initially, Srinivas demanded Rs.10.000 as a bribe from the complainant, but on the persistent requests of the complainant, he reduced the bribe amount to Rs.7.000.

The bribe amount was recovered from the possession of Srinivas whose fingers yielded positive in a chemical test. The ACB officials produced him before the special court for ACB cases in Karimnagar after which the court remanded him to judicial custody.