Hyderabad, June 27 -- Officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Khammam Range, on Saturday caught a Panchayat Secretary red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 for processing a building permission application and allotting a house number in Khammam district.

According to the ACB statement, the accused, Thammisetty Suresh, Panchayat Secretary of Bhanapuram Gram Panchayat in Mudigonda mandal, demanded and accepted the bribe from a complainant near the Rythu Vedika at Mudigonda for processing the building permission and issuing a house number for a one-room sheet-roofed house being constructed on the complainant's five-kunta plot in Bhanapuram village.

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