Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Friday arrested Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Sanjeev Kumar for his involvement in the fake recruitment of six persons in IT and Telecommunications wing of the Punjab police. For the same, Kumar had collected illegal gratification of Rs 28.50 lakh to hand over ‘job letters’ to them.
Vigilance Bureau’s spokesperson said that the absconding accused ASI surrendered on Friday in the SAS Nagar court and has been remanded to vigilance custody for December 12.
The inquiry, conducted so far by the Bureau into “illegal and fraudulent” recruitment, prime facie found that Rs 28.50 lakh was allegedly paid to ASI Sanjeev Kumar by the illegally recruited constables in December last.
Six persons were identified as Anmol Chabba of Kulgara, Nangal; Harjit Sharma and Achar Chand of Karala, Mohali; Gurjant Singh of Mohali; and Davinder Kumar and his brother Jatinder Kumar of Kajheri, Chandigarh.
On the basis of probe and their documents, the Bureau has registered a case under sections 406, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 7, 13 (2) of Prevention of Corruption Act at Police Station Phas-XI, SAS Nagar.
He added that the accused was absconding since August 2017 and has surrendered under tremendous pressure put forth by the vigilance teams who were raiding at his house and his relatives.
Spokesperson informed that Punjab and Haryana High Court has also rejected his bail plea on August 28 and Bureau has obtained arrest warrant from the trail court on November 11.
The accused ASI has influenced job seekers to recruit them as constables in the IT&T Wing of the state police in lieu of money, said the spokesperson.
Giving details, the spokesperson said that the accused had forged job letters on December 23, 2016, and got diary numbers on various documents, including signatures of the competent authority. He also managed to enlist their roll call in the ‘Rojnamcha’ and their attendance was also being marked, but they got no salary.
He further informed that the accused was also facing two other cases which were registered at police station Talwandi Choudharian in Kapurthala district under section 420 IPC and sector 36 police station Chandigarh under section 325 and 34 of IPC.
The Bureau would investigate the matter thoroughly during his custodial interrogation, he added.