Archive · 14 Aug 2026
Legal Metrology Official Sentenced to Three Years in Bribery Case
Once there was a government worker named Nangoth Swamy whose job was checking scales and weighing machines.
In 2017, a man gave him 30,000 rupees to help renew a licence for a weighbridge.
Taking money and gifts to do special favours at work is called bribery.
Bribery is against the law because it is not fair to everyone else.
A special police group called the ACB caught him.
A special court in the city of Kurnool heard his case.
The judge, N. Srividya, said he was guilty.
The judge said he must go to prison for three years.
He also must pay a fine of 2 lakh rupees, and if he does not pay, he will stay in prison for six more months.
This shows that people who take bribes can face serious punishment.
The Kurnool ACB Special Court convicted legal metrology official Nangoth Swamy in a bribery case registered in 2017 and sentenced him to three years' rigorous imprisonment.
Swamy was fined Rs 1 lakh under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, and another Rs 1 lakh under Sections 13(2) and 13(1)(d), totalling Rs 2 lakh.
Both three-year sentences will run concurrently; defaulting on payment of each fine adds six months' simple imprisonment.
Swamy demanded and accepted a bribe of Rs 30,000 from B. Ramalingayya of Allagadda on July 15, 2017, at his Kurnool residence to favour renewal of the Sri Rajyalakshmi weighbridge licence.
The articles differ on Swamy's current designation in Tirupati — regional inspector according to one and assistant controller according to the other — and both note the licence was held in the complainant's wife's name.
- Who
- Nangoth Swamy, a legal metrology department official (then district inspector of weights and measures, Kurnool-II; now posted in Tirupati as regional inspector or assistant controller, per conflicting reports), convicted by Special Judge N. Srividya; complainant B. Ramalingayya of Allagadda.
- What
- Swamy was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment and a total fine of Rs 2 lakh for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000.
- When
- Judgment was pronounced on a Thursday; the bribe was accepted on July 15, 2017, and the case was registered in 2017.
- Where
- Kurnool, India — the bribe was demanded at Swamy's residence in Kurnool, and the weighbridge involved was at Allagadda.
- Why
- Swamy accepted the bribe as an official favour to renew the licence of the Sri Rajyalakshmi weighbridge, registered in the complainant's wife's name, and issue the renewal certificate.
- Convicted official
- Nangoth Swamy
- Court
- Kurnool ACB Special Court (Special Judge N. Srividya)
- Bribe amount
- Rs 30,000
- Bribe date
- July 15, 2017
- Sentence
- Three years' rigorous imprisonment, two concurrent terms
- Total fine
- Rs 2 lakh (default: six months' simple imprisonment per fine)
- Law
- Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 — Sections 7, 13(2), 13(1)(d)
- Case references
- CC No. 2/2019; Crime No. 10/RCT-KUR/2017
