The Joint Collector of Ranga Reddy district and a senior assistant working at the Ranga Reddy district Collector office were taken into custody by the Anti Corruption Bureau after the senior assistant was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 8 lakh at the behest of the Joint Collector on Monday evening.
According to the ACB officials, Y Madan Mohan Reddy, working as senior assistant in Ranga Reddy district Collectorate demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs 8 lakh from one J Muthyam Reddy, a resident of Balapur to remove 14 guntas of land owned by him from the ‘prohibited list’ in Dharani website.