₹65.5 lakh and 3.5 kg gold seized from govt. official in Telangana
The Hindu
Telangana ACB recovers ₹65.5 lakh, 3.639 kg gold from a ‘corrupt’ executive engineer's residence in Hyderabad.
A sum of ₹65.5 lakh and 3.639 kg gold, worth ₹1.51 crore, were recovered by Telangana’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) during a search at the residence of K. Jaga Jyothi, executive engineer in-charge of school education wing of the Tribal Welfare Engineering department, at Mehdipatnam in Hyderabad on Tuesday, according to the ACB.
Ms. Jyothi was arrested by the ACB at her office in Tribal Bhavan, Masab Tank, on February 19 (Monday) while accepting a bribe of ₹84,000 from a contractor. Many property documents for open plots and agricultural land were also identified during the search, the officers said.
Ms. Jyothi had demanded the bribe from B. Ganganna, a licensed contractor in Nizamabad, to perform an official duty.
The Principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases in Hyderabad will hear her case. Further searches at her residence and scrutiny of bank accounts are under way, the officers said.
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