Engineer held for accepting Rs 2 lakh bribe

A superintending engineer was arrested while accepting a bribe amount of Rs 2 lakh, the anti-corruption bureau said today.

S Praveen Chandra, working in the Telangana Urban Finance and Infrastructure Corporation's Nalgonda division, was caught last evening when he accepted the bribe from the complainant, who is a civil contractor, for doing an official favour, an ACB release said.