Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, August 16 -
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has registered a corruption case against two officials of Excise and Texation Department, Punjab posted at Kapurthala namely Jatinderpal Singh, Inspector and Sanjeev Malhotra, Clerk for accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 and were demanding Rs 20,000 more. In this case Inspector Jatinderpal Singh has been arrested and would be produced in the court tomorrow.
Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said this case has been registered against the above mentioned accused based on a complaint lodged by Neeraj Sharma, a resident of Mohalla Kiampura, Kapurthala city on the Chief Minister's Anti Corruption Action Line.
He further informed that the complainant had informed in his complaint that he is running an electronic shop at Kiampura in Kapurthala city and had sold a cooler in March this to which both the above mentioned accused had intervened to settle the dispute with the customer. He further alleged that both the accused had asked him on his mobile phone to come with his accountant in the office where they demanded a bribe of Rs 45,000 from him to settle irregularities of said bill.
