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Vigilance Bureau apprehends HC accepting Rs 70K bribe

January 02, 2025 08:31 PM
Vigilance Bureau apprehends HC accepting Rs 70K bribe

 Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, January 2-

The Punjab VB, during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, on Thursday has arrested Head Constable Kuldeep Singh, posted at police station Sangat, Bathinda district for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 70000.

Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said this case has been registered against
the aforementioned police official on a complaint lodged by Jagwinder Singh, a resident of village Pathrala, in
Bathinda district.

He further informed that the said complaint has approached the VB and informed that his friend has been
lodged in Bathinda jail and the said police official had threatened to involve his wife also in the police case and
demanded Rs 1,50,000 for refraining to book her but the deal was struck at Rs 70000.

The spokesperson further added that after a preliminary enquiry into this complaint the VB team laid a trap
during which the said police personnel was caught red handed while he was receiving the bribe money from
the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.

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