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TDP Telangana MLA Revanth Reddy, who was caught while allegedly trying to bribe a nominated MLA to vote for his party's nominee in today's Telangana Legislative Council polls, was arrested and sent to 14-day judicial custody.
The court, however, allowed Reddy to cast his vote in the polls.
ACB Director General A K Khan told PTI that Reddy and two others were sent to 14-day judicial custody.
Election to the Telangana Legislative Council under MLAs' quota from the Assembly constituency is underway today to fill up six vacant seats.
Earlier, Reddy, Sebastian Harry and Uday Simha were taken into custody by the ACB. After interrogation, they were officially arrested and produced before the residence of a magistrate this morning, who remanded them to judicial custody.
Based on a complaint by nominated MLA Elvis Stephenson, ACB officials took Reddy and two others into custody last night after they were caught allegedly handing over Rs 50 lakh as bribe to the nominated MLA.
"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 yesterday to allegedly hand over the cash when ACB sleuths caught them offering the bribe, Khan had earlier said.
"After the voting, the remaining Rs 4.5 crore was to be paid," the ACB officer said.
After a preliminary probe, a case was registered yesterday and MLA Reddy and two others were caught while allegedly handing over the cash.
An FIR has been registered againt them under Section 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC, the ACB officer said.
