VB arrests private person for demanding Rs one lakh bribe

Dilbag Singh 

VB arrests private person for demanding Rs one lakh bribe

CHANDIGRAH/JALANDHAR, 19 FEBRUARY 

 The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Monday arrested a private person Pardeep Kumar, a resident of Khalwara colony, Phagwara, Kapurthala district for demanding a bribe of Rs one lakh in the name of Tehsildar and manager Fard Kendar Phagwara.
Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said this case has been registered against the said accused on an online complaint lodged by Manjit Singh, a resident of village Madhopur in tehsil Phagwara on the Chief Minister anti-corruption action line.
He further added that the complainant has alleged in his complaint that the above-mentioned accused has demanded an illegal gratification of Rs one lakh in a revenue case regarding mutation of ancestral land as his wife has applied to the Tehsildar who has marked it to the concerned Patwari. The accused has assured the complainant to accomplish the task and told him that the Tehsildar and Fard Kendra manager has demanded Rs one lakh as a bribe in this regard. The complainant has also made a recording of the demand raised by the above-mentioned accused while demanding money and submitted it to the VB as a piece of evidence.

In this regard, the VB range Jalandhar has investigated the complaint and found the allegations made by the complainant as true and correct. Based on this report, a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the above-mentioned accused at VB police station Jalandhar range.