Govt auditor held for bribery

Hyderabad, Apr 6 (UNI) The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today arrested a senior auditor belonging to the District Audit Office in Vizianagaram for taking bribe.

An ACB release here said Laveti Sangam Naidu demanded Rs 2,500 from a retired Secondary Grade Teacher who had reportedly been paid excess salary from 1984 till her retirement.

T Padmavathy had asked Naidu to ignore the error while auditing the payments made to her.

In another case, C N S Raju, a health supervisor at the Government Ruia Hospital in Tirupati, was arrested for taking Rs 2,000 as bribe for doing an official favour to a complainant.

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