Hyderabad: A divisional accounts officer in Adilabad district of Telangana and a district panchayat officer in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh were trapped by ACB today for allegedly taking bribe.

P Kranthi Kumar, working in Rural Water Supply department in Adilabad, was caught red-handed at his residence this morning by ACB sleuths when he was accepting Rs 52,000 from a complainant for clearing his bills, an ACB release stated in Hyderabad.

In another case, A Nagaraju Varma, district panchayat officer working in Vijayawada of Krishna district, was caught at his office when he was accepting bribe of Rs 2 lakh from a complainant for doing an official favour, it said. Both the cases are under investigation, it said