ACB arrests Irrigation executive engineer for accepting bribe from contractor

According to the ACB, Amarender Reddy, who is working as EE of Irrigation division-7 in Rajanna-Sircilla district, demanded Rs 1 lakh from a contractor to clear bills of Rs 50 lakh and accepted to take Rs 75,000

Karimnagar: The Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Irrigation Executive Engineer Amarender Reddy on charges of accepting bribes from a contractor.

According to the ACB, Amarender Reddy, who is working as EE of Irrigation division-7 in Rajanna-Sircilla district, demanded Rs 1 lakh from a contractor to clear bills of Rs 50 lakh and accepted to take Rs 75,000.

The contractor approached ACB, who hatched a plan and arrested EE at his residence in Vidhyanagar here on Friday night. Amarender Reddy, who took Rs 60,000 from the contractor, threw the amount in the open place behind his home by wrapping it in his son’s shirt, suspecting an ACB raid.

The ACB, who took EE into custody, found the money by checking the CCTV installed in the home. He will be produced in the Karimnagar ACB court on Saturday.

The contractor, who constructed a check dam in between Avunur-Agraharam village by spending Rs 8 crore, had already paid Rs 4 lakh bribe to the EE to clear bills of Rs 5 crore.