Hyderabad, May 20 -- A special court for Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) cases on Wednesday, May 20, remanded Saggam Anantha Laxmi Kumar, General Manager (Engineering) of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWSSB), to 14 days' judicial custody, a day after the ACB arrested him on charges of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Kumar, 58, who is posted at Project Division-VIII in Red Hills, was subsequently lodged at Chanchalguda Central Prison.

The ACB had on Tuesday, May 19, registered a case against Kumar under Sections 13(1)(b) and 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and conducted simultaneous searches at his residence and eight other premises belonging to his relatives, friends...