Hyderabad:
A sub-registrar at V.Madugula in Visakhapatnam district and his private assistant were caught taking a bribe on Thursday.
According to an ACB press release, the sub-registrar, N Raghu, was caught in his office when he took Rs 6,000 as bribe from SV Parameswara Rao of Thimmarajupeta village for delivering two registered documents in respect of an agricultural land purchased by the latter and his friend.
The bribe amount was taken by Raghu's private assistant, P Jagannatham, and both were caught by the ACB sleuths. The two would be arrested and produced before a special court for ACB cases in Visakhapatnam.
Meanwhile, the special court for ACB cases in Hyderabad convicted and sentenced a senior assistant, Syed Mazaruddin Shah Quadri, and an attender, Shaik Shabbir Ahmed, in the office of the chief commissioner of land administration in the city to undergo one year rigorous imprisonment and six months' rigorous imprisonment respectively in a corruption case.
The two had been caught earlier when they took a bribe of Rs 1,500 from a person to process a file and to issue certificate copies of land documents, the release said.