Telangana Cop Arrested For Taking A Rs 17,000 Bribe, 24 Hours After He Was Awarded 'Best Constable'
Palle Thirupati Reddy was a Constable posted at I Town police station of Mahabubnagar district. He was honoured with the &lsquobest constable&rsquo and received a citation from excise minister V Srinivas Goud on Independence Day. Just a day later he was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 17000.
They say that 24 hours is a long time to have your life turned around. From hero to zero in a matter of 24 hours, that is how life has turned around for Palle Thirupati Reddy.
On August 15, Reddy, a Constable posted at I Town police station of Mahabubnagar district was celebrating his life when he was honoured with the ¡®best constable¡¯ and received a citation from excise minister V Srinivas Goud on Independence Day.
Just a day later he was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for accepting a bribe of Rs 17,000.
Reddy was allegedly trying to extort the money from one Mudavath Ramesh by threatening to falsely implicate him in a case.
According to ACB DSP S Krishna Goud, Reddy had been harassing Ramesh, who used to transport sand on his tractor, for over a year.
He added that last month Reddy had threatened Ramesh to implicate him in a false case if he did not pay up Rs 17,000.
Ramesh then approached the ABC and on Friday they laid a trap for Reddy. He was arrested by the ABC from the police station after the amount was recovered from the back pocket of Reddy¡¯s trousers.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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