ACB traps two engineers while accepting 9 lakh
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) personnel caught two engineers of Rural Electrical Co-operative Society red hand, while they were accepting a bribe of Rs 9 lakh from an applicant, who needed three-phase electricity connection at Parawada area in the city limits on Friday.
​Visakhapatnam: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) personnel caught two engineers of Rural Electrical Co-operative Society red hand, while they were accepting a bribe of Rs 9 lakh from an applicant, who needed three-phase electricity connection at Parawada area in the city limits on Friday.
The accused engineers were identified as D Prasad, additional divisional engineer of RECS-Parawada and N Suresh, assistant engineer working at Kasimkota. Both the engineers accepted five cheques totalling Rs 6 lakh (5 X Rs1.2 lakh) besides Rs 3 lakh in cash as bribe.
The ACB officials said that the engineers demanded the money from chairman of Samskriti Global Public School, Parawada, P Suryanarayana Reddy for installation of 160 KVA transformer and to provide three-phase power supply in addition to the existing 100 KVA transformer in two-phase power capacity in the public school.
DSP of ACB (Visakha Urban) K Ramakrishna Prasad told reporters that Suryanarayana Reddy approached the accused several times to get three-phase power supply for his school. However, the duo demanded money and kept his application pending.
Vexed with the attitude of the officials, Reddy approached the ACB personnel who laid a trap and nabbed both. The ACB officials recovered the cash and cheques from the tainted engineers and arrested them. Both will be produced in the ACB court on Saturday.
