Hyderabad: The Panchayat secretary of Kannepalli village in Mancherial district was nabbed by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday, December 5, for his alleged corruption in dispensing Indiramma housing funds.

According to the ACB officials, the accused officer Gorlapalli Raj Kumar demanded a bribe of Rs 5,000 from the complainant to take photographs of their house being constructed under the government scheme.

This was required for updating the stage-wise process in the housing app, which would then allow Rs 1.4 lakh to be sanctioned to the complainants.

In a different case, the deputy Tahsildar of Nalgonda’s Chandur mandal was arrested by ACB on Friday for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 20,000.

The officer, identified as Chandra Shekar, demanded a bribe to hand

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