Amberpet tahsildar flees after ACB nets brother for Rs 4 lakh bribe

Ms Rani had allegedly demanded the bribe from Mr Md Asad Ahmed to not issue a notice against a four-storey building that he was constructing in Amberpet after demolishing the existing structure.

A few days ago, Ms Rani had reportedly questioned him about the building. He replied that the old building had municipal permission from 1974. After the purchased it, he had got it registered. She asked him for the original documents for verification.

When he submitted the papers, she rejected them saying that as per the Town Survey Land Records, the land belonged to the government and threatened to stop the construction. Action would be taken on him if he continued with the construction, she said.

When asked for a way out, she demanded a bribe of Rs 10 lakh and the deal was settled at Rs 7 lakh. On Thursday morning she asked him to pay Rs 4 lakh and the balance Rs 3 lakh by Saturday.

In the afternoon, she told Mr Ahmed to come with the cash to Abids. When he reached there, she told him to come to Punjagutta where her brother would collect the cash.

“He (the tahsildar’s brother) took the cash and was counting when we trapped him. Upon inquiry, he admitted that his sister was attending a meeting at the GHMC head office and had told him to collect the money,” said Hyderabad ACB DSP Ravi Kumar.

Officials trapped Nageshwar Rao in a lane beside Hyderabad Central Shopping Mall. Following this Ms Rani absconded. ACB officials have registered a case and are trying to trace her.