VB ARRESTS FORMER KANUGO FOR TAKING RS ONE LAKH BRIBE

VB ARRESTS FORMER KANUGO FOR TAKING RS ONE LAKH BRIBE

Accused demanding Rs one lakh more money

Chandigarh February 17 – The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, has arrested a retired Kanugo Sutantar Singh, a resident of town Rahon, in SBS Nagar district for accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh.

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 Harmel Singh, a resident of village Chhokra of tehsil Nawanshahar on the Chief Minister anti corruption action line.

He further added that the complainant has alleged in his complaint that the above said accused has taken illegal gratification of Rs one lakh to help in a revenue case regarding division of ancestral land and demanding Rs one lakh more bribe in the name of Tehsildar and Patwari. The complainant has also made recording of demand raised by the said Kanugo while demanding bribe and submitted to the VB as an evidence.

In this regard the VB range Jalandhar has investigated the complaint and found the allegations as true and correct. On the basis of this report, a case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the above said accused at VB police station Jalandhar range and has been arrested. Further investigation into this case was under progress, he added.