ACB Crackdown Puts Corrupt Officials on Edge Across Telangana
From October 1, 2025 to June 9, 2026, the ACB booked as many as 192 cases
Hyderabad: The crackdown launched by Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) led by its Director-General Charu Sinha against the corrupt officers in various departments is giving sleepless nights to government officials these days.
After taking charge as ACB DG on October 1, 2025, she conducted a detailed review of the pending cases and complaints received against the officials for demanding bribes to do an official favour or allegedly amassing disproportionate assets.
Based on this information, the ACB sleuths started cracking the whip on tainted officials. From October 1, 2025 to June 9, 2026, the ACB booked as many as 192 cases. Of them, 95 were related to trap cases for demanding bribes from people, while 12 pertained to DA and 23 related to criminal misconduct, according to sources.
The ACB has conducted 62 surprise checks at RTA check posts, rice mills and registration offices, among other government offices and detected several discrepancies. Separate reports were sent to the State government seeking action against those involved in discrepancies.
The crackdown broke a 14 years record in the ACB, which is giving jitters to tainted officers. The focus is mainly laid on DA cases apart from nabbing the government officials red-handed in bribe cases.
Be it the officials from police, revenue or forest departments, the ACB is leaving no stone unturned in taking action against the corrupt officials.
Among the notable cases cracked by the ACB include detection of Rs.17.94 crore assets allegedly belonging to Roads and Buildings Engineer-in-Chief J Mohan Naik during simultaneous raids conducted at 17 places across Telangana on Tuesday.
In another case, the ACB booked a DA case against the suspended Additional Superintendent of Police Nayini Bhujanga Rao for allegedly acquiring assets disproportionate to his known sources of income by indulging in corrupt practices and dubious means during his service.
Properties worth Rs.5.92 crore were detected in Rao’s case. Rao was earlier arrested in an illegal phone-tapping case, officials said.
In 2025, the ACB registered a total of 199 cases in which 273 accused were arrested. Of these, 157 were trap cases involving arrest of 224 accused (176 government servants), 15 cases of disproportionate assets against government servants, and 26 other cases of criminal misconduct by government servants, in which 34 accused were arrested.
Besides, the ACB conducted 26 Regular Enquiries into allegations of corruption. Around 54 surprise checks were conducted on various offices, like Sub-Registrar offices. RTA check posts, various Welfare Hostels etc. It obtained 115 sanction orders from the government for prosecution of accused and filed charge sheets.
In the 158 trap cases booked in 2025, the ACB seized a total amount of Rs.57.17 lakh, of which Rs.35.89 lakh has been reimbursed to the complainants. Besides, properties of accused in disproportionate assets, worth Rs.96.13 crore were unearthed in 15 cases.
