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Telangana: Anti-graft agency arrests official for accepting Rs 30,000 bribe

Hyderabad, Mar 28 (UNI) The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday caught P Ravi Shankar, District Extension & Media Officer, Office of the District Medical and Health Officer (DM&HO), Adilabad, while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000.
The accused officer (AO), Macherla Poshetty Ravi Shankar, a resident of Sanjaynagar, Adilabad district, was caught red-handed on the premises of the DM&HO office in Adilabad by the ACB.
He was found demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from the complainant in exchange for showing official favour—specifically, for not submitting a report against the complainant in an inquiry regarding the abortion of a minor girl, which resulted in fetal death.
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