Nine Nalgonda municipal employees held in ₹5-cr. fraud
The Hindu
37 were listed as accused in the fraud committed between 2011-15
The Nalgonda Town-II police, after investigations following financial audit reports, arrested accused persons in the ₹5.04-crore fraud in the Nalgonda municipality recorded in 2015.
As of Saturday, nine persons were arrested and remanded in judicial custody and search for the remaining officials was on. The administration, following their remand, also placed six of them under suspension. The arrests, three on each day, were made on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
The incident refers to the accumulated financial irregularities in the local body office in the town between 2011 and 2015. The police launched an investigation after the then municipal commissioner A. Mangathayaru reported the violations.
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