Hyderabad, June 16 -- Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials on Monday caught a Panchayat Secretary red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 8,000 from a local resident in Budhera village of Telangana's Sangareddy district, officials said.

According to an ACB release, Patlolla Nagalaxmi (40), serving as Panchayat Secretary (Grade-III) of Budhera Gram Panchayat in Munipally Mandal of Sangareddy district, was caught red-handed at around 1:05 PM while accepting a bribe of Rs 8,000 at the Gram Panchayat office.

Nagalaxmi demanded the bribe from a complainant in exchange for issuing official permissions -- specifically, to allow the establishment of a water servicing centre shed and allotment of a new house number for the complainant's open ...