ACB officials arrests two engineers of RECS while accepting a bribe of Rs.9 lakh

Friday, June 9, 2017 
Visakhapatnam

Anti Corruption Bureau officials today arrested two engineers of Rural Electricity Cooperative Society, Kasimkota while they were allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.9 lakhs from a complainant at the latter’s house at Parawada.

The accused were identified as Assistant Engineer RECS D.Prasad and Assistant Divisional Engineer N.Suresh. According to ACB, DSP K.Ramakrishna Prasad, the duo demanded a bribe of Rs.10 lakh from one P.Suryanarayana Reddy, Chairman of Samskriti Global Public School, Parawada for upgrading the power supply to 3 phase from the exiting 2 phase supply in the school. The deal was negotiated to Rs.9 lakh but vexed with the harassment, the victim approached the ACB who laid a trap and caught them while accepting the bribe.

The ACB officials recovered the bribe amount cash and cheque from their possession. The accused official would be produced in the court on Saturday.