Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths, on Tuesday, caught a Junior Assistant red-handed while he was taking a bribe of Rs. 3,000 from a person .
According to ACB officials, the Junior Assistant, identified as Kona Appa Rao (48), was caught late on Monday night in his office, when he demanded and accepted an amount of Rs. 3,000 as bribe from a person for doing an official favour.
The victim approached the ACB when Rao demanded a bribe for the official favour of processing the increment arrears bill and to implement the revised pay scales.
Kona Appa Rao was arrested, and will be produced before the Court of III Additional District and sessions judge-cum-special judge for SPE and ACB Cases, Visakhapatnam.