Hyderabad: Corruption is a social evil which has its roots running deep in our country. Corruption seems to have crawled into every sector, private or public. One such incident recently surfaced in Telangana. Caught taking a bribe, a law officer in Telangana tore the currency notes and flushed them down the toilet in an attempt to wipe out evidence. The officer decided to tear the notes after the Anti-Corruption Bureau caught him.

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Ansari works at the Junior First Class Magistrate's (JFCM) court in Shadnagar town. He had demanded Rs. 8,000 from Prabhakar Reddy for not including his mother's name in a case. Mr. Reddy lodged a complaint with the anti-graft agency, which laid a trap to catch the officer red-handed. Accused was collecting the bribe money from Mr. Reddy at his house in Hyderabad when the ACB team arrived; the accused realized that he was being trapped. On noticing the officials, he tore the currency notes and flushed them down a toilet. The officials managed to retrieve the torn pieces and arrested him. This is not the first time that an officer has been caught red-handed while getting his pockets warmed. In last year November, a police officer was caught red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs. 75000.

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