ACB trapped a Chanda Nagar SI and a constable on a Saturday chargesheet bribe. ₹75,000 came out of the SI’s office drawer.

Saturday’s trap was at a Cyberabad station table. The money, the agency said, was already in the drawer.

On Saturday, 22 August 2026, Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau officials arrested Bandela Balraj, Sub-Inspector at Chanda Nagar police station under the Cyberabad commissionerate, and B Raghavendra, PC-7491, a constable at the same station. The allegation is that they demanded and accepted bribes to favour the complainant in Crime No. 696/2026 of Chanda Nagar police station. Helping with the investigation and filing the charge sheet is the favour named on the public card. Favour is the allegation. Charge sheet is the paper they allegedly sold. This desk will keep both sentences labelled as ACB accusations, not as a court finding.

ACB said Balraj demanded ₹75,000. Officials caught him red-handed on 22 August. At his instance, they recovered the ₹75,000 from a drawer in his office table. ₹75,000 is the trap recovery. It is not a conviction amount. The same filing says Balraj had earlier received ₹20,000 in cash. The constable, on the agency’s account, had received another ₹10,000 through UPI. ₹20,000 cash and ₹10,000 UPI are the alleged pre-trap receipts. Together they are ₹30,000 already taken, on that telling. This desk will not treat ₹30,000 as a third, separate payment. It is the sum of the two earlier lines.

Both officers were arrested. They were to be produced before the Principal Special Judge for SPE and ACB Cases at Hyderabad for judicial remand. One public card said they were produced and sent to judicial remand. Remand is custody. It is not a trial verdict. Investigation, the agency said, is continuing. The complainant is not named on this card. This desk will not invent a name to fill the blank.

Chanda Nagar is the station. Cyberabad is the commissionerate. Rangareddy holds the geography on this paper’s place line. Crime No. 696/2026 is the live station crime that, on the allegation, became the price list. This desk will not invent the complainant’s grievance, the original offence under that crime number, or a chargesheet draft that is not on the file.

What is not here is a conviction, a named complainant, a third cash bundle beyond the ₹20,000 and ₹10,000 already counted, or a Telugu-desk lock this desk has opened for this trap. What is here is a Saturday ACB trap, an SI and a writer-constable, ₹75,000 from an office-table drawer, ₹20,000 cash alleged earlier to the SI, ₹10,000 UPI alleged to the constable, Crime No. 696/2026, and a remand path to the SPE and ACB special court at Hyderabad.

A police station that sells a chargesheet is selling the state’s paper. Until a court writes, every rupee on this page is allegation. The drawer is the public picture. The conviction is not yet written.