New Delhi: The CBI has arrested a deputy director of Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) in Hyderabad and two others in connection with alleged bribery of Rs 2 lakh to issue a favourable enquiry report in a mining accident case without implicating the company, officials said Tuesday.
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The agency arrested DGMS Deputy Director (Mining) U Siva Sankar posted at the Hyderabad-III region along with a representative of Vasavi Granites, Sidda Venkata Suresh Kumar, and alleged middleman A Subhaskar Reddy of Lotus Enviro Mining Services (LEMS) on Monday.
"Information was received that a fatal accident occurred on June 25, 2026, at a mining quarry in Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh. The representatives of the concerned mining establishment approached the accused DD (mining), through a consultant/middleman, for obtaining a favourable enquiry report in connection with the accident and without implicating the owners of the mining establishment," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
According to the statement, the middleman had allegedly earlier paid Rs 1 lakh as part of the undue advantage to the accused officer for a favourable report.
"Subsequently, an amount of Rs 2 lakh was arranged for payment to the deputy director (mining), which was to be delivered at Ongole on 17.08.2026, towards obtaining a favourable report and also towards alleged quarterly bribe payments relating to the private mining establishment and other mines," it said.
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The CBI raided the place where the alleged bribe exchange was taking place and arrested the officer "red-handed" while accepting the bribe from the middleman in the presence of a representative of the mining company, according to the statement.
The trap team recovered Rs 2 lakh as the bribe amount during the proceedings, it said.
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