Engineer caught accepting Rs 25,000 bribe

An Additional Assistant Engineer was caught red-handed here today by sleuths of Anti-Corruption Bureau while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a complainant for releasing power from the newly installed agricultural transformer located in his fields.

The bribe amount was recovered from the car of the Additional Assistant Engineer N Yedukondulu Reddy, Marpally Section, Electricity Department, Ranga Reddy district, an ACB statement said.

Reddy is being arrested and produced before the ACB court, Hyderabad, it was stated.