VB RECOVERS RS 8,90,000 DURING ACCUSEDS' HOUSE SEARCH
Pathankot/Chandigarh
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, on Thursday has apprehended Deed Writer Subash Chander and his brother Ramesh Chander, a Stamp Vender, residing at village Taloor, tehsil Narot Jaimal Singh, Pathankot
district for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 on behalf of Naib Tehsildar, Narot Jaimal Singh. During search of their house at village Taloor, the VB team recovered a cash amounting to Rs 8,90,000 and the duo could not give satisfactory details of this cash.
Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said the above mentioned accessed were arrested based on a complaint lodged by Sukhvir Pal, a resident of village Kohliyan, Pathankot district.
He further informed that the complainant has approached the VB and alleged in his complaint, that the said accused had demanded Rs 30,000 for registry of his plot on behalf of Naib Tehsildar, Narot Jaimal Singh.
He further informed that after preliminary enquiry of this complaint the VB team laid a trap in which the both the accused were caught red handed accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.
He added that in this regard a case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered at VB police station Amritsar range. The accused would be produced in the competent court tomorrow and further investigation was under progress, he said.