Gram panchayat secy held in bribery case

A gram panchayat secretary was held by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly accepting a bribe, a press release said.

M C T V S Suguneswara Rao Patnaik, panchayat secretary of K Kotapadu gram panchyat in Visakhapatnam district was
caught red-handed by the ACB at the complainant’s house when he accepted a bribe of Rs 15,000 for issuance of a death
certificate.

The accused officer would be arrested and produced before the Special Judge for ACB cases at Visakhapatnam, ACB
release said.

——————————PTI