[Chd,Pb]Punjab Vigilants Claims to Have Stampout Corruption Nabbing 157 Corrupts
During last year, the VB has been able to nab 157 officials of different departments and 25 private persons while accepting bribes in 131 trap cases.
As per VB Chief Director-cum-ADGP, B.K. Uppal, Bureau had nabbed 17 gazzeted officers (GOs) and 140 non-gazzetted officials (NGOs) during last twelve months
49 personnel of Punjab Police,
35 of Revenue Department,
19 of Power,
12 of Panchayats and Rural Development,
6 of Health department,
4 of Local Bodies and
4 of Food & Civil Supply department were nabbed red handed while taking bribes in separate cases.
VB had registered 22 criminal cases against 94 accused which include 22 GOs, 41 NGOs and 31 private persons. Apart from this, 77 Vigilance Enquires have also been registered to probe corruption complaints against 39 GOs, 49 NGOs and 39 private persons. Besides, disproportionate Assets cases were also registered against four NGOs
Various special courts have sentenced 58 accused in 35 cases under prevention of corruption act which includes
6 GOs,
38 NGOs and
14 private persons and awarded with imprisonments from one year to ten years. The courts have also imposed fines from Rs. 5,000 to 2 lakh in these cases which amounts to total sum of Rs. 1,56,98,000,
Uppal also informed that the state government had terminated the services of two GO and ten NGOs on the recommendations of VB after registration of corruption cases against them and imprisonments thereafter.
Giving details of prominent cases he informed that Gulshan Kumar Executive Engineer and Chief Engineer Parmjit Singh Ghuman of Irrigation department (Irrigation Scam), DDPO Gurinder Singh Sarao, Tehsildar Kuldeep Singh, BDPO Malvinder Singh, BDPO Jatinder Singh of Rural Development and Panchayat Department (Jheorheri Scam), Inspector Amandeep Singh, Senior Assistant Sukhpreet Singh and Guru ji alias Master ji of PUNSUP Department (Recruitment Scam) were arrested during last year.