ACB raid checkposts in T.S and A.P

Hyderabad: In a night-long operation, eight teams of officials belonging to the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh raided as many checkposts of the Transport Department in Telangana and two in Andhra Pradesh. Even on Tuesday morning, no additional detail was available as the raids were still continuing.

“When the ACB teams come, we lose track of the number of hours. While some of them stop vehicles, checking if drivers of goods vehicles are being forced to cough up money for smooth transit, some others check every paper available at the checkpost. So it will take some time for us to get to know what exactly happened. About Rs. 58,000 of excess cash at these checkposts was seized from personnel posted there,” an officer who did not wish to be quoted.

As of 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the ACB teams that are stationed in the districts, were still



at work on the raids that began at the nearest border checkpost in their respective districts, late on Monday evening. While the Mahabubnagar team hit the Alampur checkpost, the others who were in the operation were Nalgonda (Alampur checkpost), Khammam (Aswaraopet and Kalluru), Adilabad (Adilabad and Vankidi), Nizamabad (Madnur) and Medak (Zaheerabad).

Telangana State has 15 such checkposts with the four States of Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Department sources that the last crackdown of such magnitude was the one ordered by the then Director-General (ACB) A.K. Khan as soon as Telangana State was formed last year. It may be recalled that Mr. Khan repeated the exercise during the brief while he was allotted to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. “Once back, Mr. Khan is doing the same thing for the second time in a year,” an officer said.