ACB arrests forest officer in corruption case

Hyderabad, September 01: A section officer of the forest department was arrested on charges of corruption by the officers of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Nizamabad district today.

L Prasad, forest section officer, was caught red-handed by the ACB officials at his residence at Gayatri Nagar in Mudakpally when he accepted a bribe of Rs 4,000 from a complainant, a release from ACB said.

The tainted amount of Rs 4,000 which was kept in the refrigerator was recovered, it said.

—Agencies