HYDERABAD: Two Telangana Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd (TSSPDCL) employees were arrested for demanding and accepting Rs 19,000 bribe from an electrical contractor at Nagaram in Keesara on Tuesday.
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths arrested D Vijayender Reddy, a sub-engineer at TSSPDCL divisional engineer’s office in Keesara, and J Santosh, Artisan (outsourcing) at the assistant divisional engineer’s (ADE) office, TSSPDCL, Keesara.
On a complaint of Shashi Kumar Reddy, a private electrical contractor from Nagaram, ACB sleuths laid a trap and caught Reddy red-handed at his office in Nagaram when he demanded and accepted Rs 13,000 alleged bribe from the complainant.
“Reddy demanded the bribe to sanction a transformer and electric meters panel to the complainant, who took electrical work contract of a five-storied building at Nagaram,” an ACB official said. The ACB team seized the bribe amount from him.
Further, Santosh took Rs 6,000 bribe from him on November 12 to forward a file to Reddy’s office. ACB arrested Santosh in the same case. Both the accused would be produced before the ACB special court for judicial remand.