Vikram Ditya Sharma/Ferozepore/Chandigarh
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Thursday has arrested Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Gurmel Singh, posted at police station Ferozepur city for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.
Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said the above mentioned police personnel have been arrested based on a complaint lodged by Raj Kumar, a resident of Balluana, district Ferozepur.
He further added that the complainant has approached the VB and informed that a police case was registered against his brother Madan Lal, ASI, in the Ferozepur city police station in July 2023 and the aforementioned ASI Gurmel Singh was investigating officer (IO) in this case. He further alleged that Gurmel Singh had taken Rs 10,000 at the time of filing this case against his brother. Afterwards his brother died in an accident and the said IO Gurmel Singh has to submit a report in the court about the demise of his brother so that the family could apply for government job on compassionate basis.
The complainant alleged in his complaint that the said ASI was again demanding a bribe of Rs 10,000 for this motive.
The spokesperson added that after preliminary verification of the allegations levelled in the complaint, the VB team laid a trap in which the said ASI Gurmel Singh was arrested while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.
He informed that in this regard a case under prevention of corruption act has been registered against the said ASI at VB police station Ferozepur range. Further investigation into this case was under progress.