Hyderabad: Officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Telangana, on Wednesday arrested an officer of the Commercial Taxes Department’s Punjagutta – 1 circle in Hyderabad for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 2 lakh.
The Deputy Commercial Tax Officer – Sridhar Reddy – from the Commercial Taxes Department had demanded bribes from Srikanth, a businessman, to finalize the audit of his firm and close the notice issued to him.
The bribe amount was recovered from the Deputy Commercial Tax Officer and the contact portion i.e surface of his office table yielded positive in chemical test, stated the ACB.
The accused officer after his arrest and produced before the First Additional Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases Court at Nampally, Hyderabad. The case is under investigation.
