Hyderabad, December 29: An ACB team, led by DSP A Venkata Rao, raided the house and properties of N Venkata Subrahmanyam, revenue officer of Kanuru village, Vijayawada district today and found disproportionate assets worth Rs 2 crore with him. According to officials, the VRO had 88 acres of land in and around Vijayawada, seven plots, two cars, a building and Rs 78,000 in cash. The VRO is absconding.
Searches were also conducted in the Marredpally residence of Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspector of Madnoor checkpost in Nizamabad, D Prabhu Das, and assets worth Rs 63.50 lakh were unearthed. They include five house plots, three flats, 7.5 acres agricultural land, four cars, Rs 1.40 lakh cash, 32 tola gold worth and household articles worth Rs 8 lakh.
Meanwhile, the ACB sleuths also caught a sub-registrar R Mohan Murali Babu and junior assistant G Md Shabuddin in the Office of Sub-Registrar at Srikalahasti when they took Rs 3,500 as bribe through the assistant document writer, Sk Abdul Shabeer, to deliver a registered document to a person. The three have been arrested and would be produced before a special court for ACB cases in Nellore.
In another case, CBI sleuths laid a trap and trapped the tax assistant in the IT department working at the Ayakar Bhavan, Basheerbagh today. The tax assistant, A Ramachandra Rao, allegedly demanded Rs 42,000 from a businessman who was supposed to get a tax refund of Rs 90,000 from the IT department. Ramachandra Rao agreed for Rs 10,000 to release the amount and took Rs 6,000 as the first instalment when he was caught.
Meanwhile, a postal inspector in the city, Liyaqat Ali Khan was trapped yesterday when he took Rs 1,500 bribe from a businessman to extend an official favour.
–Agencies