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This Article is From May 10, 2012

Osmania University assistant professor held for accepting bribe

Hyderabad: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday caught an assistant professor of Osmania University while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000.

Chand Basha, the assistant professor at the Microbiology Department, allegedly sought the bribe from the complainant, a research scholar, in return for an official favour.

He was trapped by the agency sleuths when he was accepting Rs 20,000 from the complainant, an ACB release said.

According to ACB officials, Basha had been demanding and forcefully extracting illegal gratification from many other research scholars.

He will be produced before a ACB court here, the release said, adding further investigations are on.

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