Cash-for-Vote: ACB raids arrested TDP MLA's house

June 09, 2015 09:53

The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday raided residences of Telugu Desam Party legislator Revanth Reddy and two others in Hyderabad in connection with the cash-for-vote case.

The ACB had on May 31 arrested Reddy for allegedly trying to bribe the nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson to vote for TDP nominee in the Telangana legislative council elections. A local court in Secunderabad will on Tuesday take up the ACB's petition seeking custody of Reddy for two more days.

Based on a complaint by Stephenson, ACB officials held Revanth, Sebastian Harry and Uday Simha after they were caught while allegedly handing over Rs 50 lakh to Stephenson.

As per the ACB, Revanth Reddy and his aide allegedly offered a bribe of Rs 50 lakh as advance as part of the Rs 5 crore deal.

The TDP MLA and his aide had gone to the residence of Stephenson at Lalaguda in Secunderabad to hand over the cash when the ACB sleuths caught them offering the bribe, an ACB officer said.

In audio and video tapes released by the ACB, Reddy purportedly makes repeated references to his "boss". Reddy allegedly also claims in the recordings that he was authorised to strike the bribe deal by "Babu Garu," which the TRS alleges is a reference to Naidu.

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