Hyderabad, July 14 -- A Municipal Assistant Engineer in Peddapally district was caught by the Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday, July 14, while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from a contractor for processing and forwarding a final bill related to a municipal development project.

According to the ACB, Kallepalli Sathish Kumar, 33, son of Rajaiah and Assistant Engineer at the Peddapally Municipal Office, allegedly demanded the bribe from the contractor for processing and forwarding the final bill of Rs 12.28 lakh to the Telangana Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation (TUFIDC), Hyderabad, for sanction.

The bill pertained to the development of the Hindu graveyard at Tenuguwada and the graveyard o...