Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has recommended registration of criminal cases and departmental action against nine gazetted officers, 14 non-gazetted officers and seven other people recently, It has also recommended a criminal case against one non-gazetted officer and 20 other persons and departmental action against 25 gazetted officers, 14 non-gazetted officers and eight other persons as they have been found guilty in the investigations conducted by it recently.
A spokesman of the Bureau said that eight officials were also caught red handed while accepting illegal gratifications ranging from Rs 2,000 to Rs 10,000. Criminal cases have been registered against them under Prevention of Corruption Act.
The officials, who had been caught red handed included Balwant Singh, Junior Engineer and Baljit Singh, Sub Divisional Officer, CADA Division, Kaithal, Assistant Sub Inspector of Government Railway Police, Panipat, Bijender Singh, a resident of Ganga Ram Colony, police station, Model Town Panipat and Surender Kumar, a resident of village Sahanpur, police station Safidon, district Jind, EHC Chander Bhan of police station Saha, district Ambala, Mahavir Singh Chouhan, Junior Engineer, Panchayati Raj, Hodal, district Palwal and Bhim Singh, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat, Milkgani, district.