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ACB planning to set up ‘innovative’ traps

Staff Reporter

NELLORE: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is planning to follow innovative methods to trap officials accepting bribes indirectly or from private persons.

ACB is developing informant network and using latest technologies to trap officials in bribery cases, said ACB Director-General R. R. Girish Kumar.

The DG told mediapersons that it was observed that the accused officials were accepting the amount in different ways. In many cases they were caught while taking bribes through their subordinates, private persons and friends or in other ways. Even in indirect traps the ACB sleuths were collecting necessary evidence to substantiate the links in the cases.

Earlier, the ACB officials used to lay traps when the officials used to accept money directly. But, now in most cases the officials were not taking the amount directly and innocent people were being booked.

“We are also following new methods to trap the accused in indirect cases,” Mr. Girish Kumar said.

The ACB chief said the conviction rate in trap cases was about 65 per cent and in disproportionate asset cases it was more than 90 per cent.

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