Bribe to grant bail? Hyderabad Metropolitan Magistrate booked by Anti-corruption bureau

HYDERABAD: Anti-corruption bureau registered a case against the Hyderabad First Metropolitan Magistrate over corruption charges. High Court ordered the case based on a petition filed by advocate T Sriranga Rao, who was the counsel for Marupaka Dattu, a MTech student from a city -based college arrested in an NDPS case.

Dattu had filed three bail petitions before the Magistrate Radhakrishna Murthy which were disallowed. Sriranga Rao, in his petition, told the court that the relatives of his client came in contact with some persons in the court who said they had to pay money to get bail. Dattu’s relatives came to Rao’s office where they told the advocate that they paid `7.50 lakh to the magistrate in two instalments on October 30 and 31. Based on the petition, court asked ACB to file a case and probe.