The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday trapped two engineers of the Irrigation Department at Mancherial while they were accepting bribes from the complainant, Ravinder Reddy, who is a contractor from Karimnagar district.
According to reports reaching here, Mancherial Executive Engineer B. Vinod Kumar and Chennur Deputy Executive Engineer Bala Sidhu were trapped while receiving Rs. 40,000 and Rs. 60,000 respectively as illegal gratification which they had demanded to release bills for work done under Mission Kakatiya.
Ravinder Reddy had executed works on five tanks and had drawn Rs. 20 lakh as the first bill.
The engineers were delaying payment of the remaining bill of Rs. 60 lakh for the last three months demanding a bribe of Rs. 1 lakh.
The vexed contractor filed a complaint with ACB.
Two teams of ACB officials led by Adilabad DSP Papalal and Karimnagar DSP T. Sudershan Goud raided the Irrigation office at Mancherial and arrested the officials.
