The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has decided to keep a vigil on the “illegal transactions’’ taking place in the villages that fall under land pooling in the proposed capital region, said ACB Vijayawada Range Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy. SP) V. Gopala Krishna.
Mr. Gopala Krishna said the ACB was acting on specific information and it had come to the notice of the sleuths that land registrations were on the rise in Tullur and the neighbouring villages.
Some document writers were mediating in land registrations on the market price, but were taking huge amounts from the backdoor and making good money. The ACB would try to check the illegal activities in the proposed capital area, said the Dy. SP. In view of the fast-paced developments, a separate unit was set up at Guntur headed by a DSP, two Inspectors and other staff. ACB had written to the government to establish a special court for ACB at Rajahmundry to deal with the cases from East and West Godavari districts, he said. Maintaining that the conviction rate in corruption cases was about 87 per cent, the Dy. SP said the ACB sleuths laid 20 traps this year against the 14 of last year. “ACB is also focusing on surprise checks and disproportionate assets cases,” Mr. Gopala Krishna said and sought the cooperation of the public to put an end to corruption.
ACB sleuths would organise sensitisation programmes for students and conduct essay writing competitions for school and college students during the week-long celebrations, said the Dy. SP.
Established in 1961, the anti-corruption wing trapped several corrupt staff in the last five and a half decades, and is observing the International Anti-Corruption Week, from December 3 to 9, he added.
