- विज्ञापन -
Gurdaspur: The team of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested a revenue village registrar, Navinder Pal, posted in revenue area Dhapai, sub-tehsil Kadian of Gurdaspur, red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs 10,000.
Giving information, the spokesperson of the State Vigilance Bureau said that the accused registrar, Navinder Pal, has been arrested after a raid based on a complaint lodged by Harjaap Singh, a resident of village Dhapai, Gurdaspur.
The spokesperson said that the complainant had approached the Vigilance Bureau and given a statement that the accused village registrar had already taken Rs 2000 as a bribe in exchange for registering the transfer of land in the name of the complainant’s wife and was demanding another bribe of Rs 10,000.
After a preliminary investigation of this complaint, the team of the Vigilance Bureau caught the accused red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs 10,000 from the complainant in the presence of two government witnesses.
In this regard, a case has been registered against village registrar under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the Amritsar Range Police Station Vigilance Bureau. He said that the said village resgistrar would be produced in court tomorrow, and further interrogation would be done by taking remand.
