Ranga Reddy district Joint Collector (JC) Bhupal Reddy has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
District Collectorate Senior Assistant Madanmohan Reddy was also arrested along with him.
The JC demanded a bribe of Rs 8 lakh for the removal of a plot of land from the prohibited list in Dharani portal. The money was taken by JC through the Senior Assistant. The ACB officials thus apprehended both the officials.
The ACB officials also conducted searches at Bhupal Reddy's residence in Nagole. Rs 16 lakh in cash and key documents were seized from the house during the raids.
ACB DG C V Anand said that officials who took bribes could not escape from the ACB no matter how many precautions they took, as the arrest of the Joint Collector and Senior Assistant showed. He praised the ACB team for working very cleverly on Monday night to catch them.