Vigilance director SK Bhagat, IPS, on Thursday appealed people to cooperate with police and administration in its efforts to keep an effective check on corruption since vigilance could not succeed in checking corruption without awareness and cooperation by people.
Interacting with media persons, Bhagat said, “Vigilance trapped three accused of corruption just because of cooperation and awareness among the people.” He said that mustering courage, the people should come forward to lodge complaints against those indulged in corruption.
He said that the people should inform vigilance immediately if any officials ask for bribe for doing a legitimate work. He said that corruption should be checked at any cost.
He criticized the people who offer bribe to the officials for getting done their work easily and held them responsible for growing corruption. He said that the vigilance department was working effectively to keep a check on corruption.
As a result, the vigilance team trapped three officials during last few days. A forest guard was caught red handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 in Haridwar on Wednesday. Similarly, an engineer of Power Corporation was trapped in Roorkie while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh.
The engineer was allegedly asking for Rs 1.5 lakh from a godown owner to replace wire of the high tension line.He said recently a corrupt official was arrested by vigilance team. He said that vigilance teams successfully trapped officials allegedly involved in corruption just because the people showed courage to lodge complaints against them. He appealed the people not to hesitate in lodging complaints against corrupt officials.