ACB inspectors jump-ed into action and seized the cash after he received the money.
Nellore: Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths trapped a deputy tahsildar T. Balaji Singh, working at Duttalur in Nellore district, while he was accepting bribe of Rs 8,000 in his office on Tuesday.
According to ACB officials, Balaji Singh had demanded Rs 8,000 from a farmer Peddireddy Venkata Krishna Reddy of Somalaregada village in Duttalur mandal to process his application for patta passbook. Irked by the demand, Krishna Reddy knocked the doo-rs of ACB and paid the cash as per directions to the officer on Tuesday.
ACB inspectors jumped into action and seized the cash after he received the money. Finger prints of Balaji yielded positive results in the chemical test. The accu-sed officer would be produced before the special judge for ACB cases.
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