District Forest Officer arrested for ₹5 lakh bribe
A District Forest officer, KR Murthy, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹5 lakh from the owner of a granite company to allow him to start mining in Andhra Pradesh's Vizianagaram district, reports said. Murthy demanded ₹10 lakh from the owner, failing which, the DFO threatened to notify the leased mining land as forest reserve.