Punjab Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption, has been able to nab 38 officials of different departments red- handed while accepting bribes in 30 trap cases during the months of May and June.
Out of 38, 11 are employees of revenue department, five police personnel, six of power department and 16 belonging to other departments.
“Bureau had laid 20 traps in the month of May in which 25 officials were nabbed whereas 10 traps were laid in June and we caught 13 employees red handed,” said the spokesperson.
Spokesperson informed that the Bureau had submitted 20 challans of vigilance cases in various special courts in the last two months and registered eight criminal cases against the accused officials. Apart from this, 17 vigilance enquires have also been registered to probe corruption cases.
It was informed that various special courts have decided eight bribery cases filed and contested by the Bureau during last two months and pronounced sentences to nine accused officials.
During the month of May, Hans Raj Patwari was convicted and sentenced with four-year imprisonment with fine of Rs 10,000 by the special court Bathinda.
Similarly Sukhdeep Singh General Manager Punjab Roadways had been imprisoned with four years jail with Rs 8,000 fine by special court Moga and Rajiv Verma, RTl of PSPCl Patiala sentenced with four years jail with fine of Rs 8,000 by special court Patiala.
In another bribery case, Balwinder Singh ASI of Police Station Rajpura had been sentenced five years jail with fine of Rs 40,000 by special court Patiala and Amit Anand clerk at SDM office Jalandhar was sentenced with four years’ imprisonment with fine of Rs 5,000 by special court Jalandhar.