Vigilance Bureau arrests private security guard for demanding Rs 10000 bribe

Chandigarh January 16 -

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its campaign against corruption in the state, has arrested a private security guard Narinder Kumar, deployed in the Civil Hospital Jalandhar, and resident of village Chak Sadhu Wala in Hoshiarpur district for demanding a bribe of Rs 10,000 in the name of a PCMS doctor.

Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said this case has been registered against the above mentioned accused based on a complaint lodged by Lokesh, a resident of Mallanwala Khas, district Ferozpur on the Chief Minister's Anti Corruption Action Line.

He further informed that the complainant had informed in his complaint that he had approached an orthopaedics specialist in the office of civil surgeon Jalandhar to issue disability certificate for his relative but couldn’t get desirable disability status to purchase e-tricycle. Afterwards the above said accused, deployed as security guard by the doctor outside his office, has demanded Rs 10000 to get favourable disability certificate. The complainant has recorded the conversation on his phone with the accused and submitted it to the VB as an evidence.

The spokesperson further informed that during verification of allegations leveled in this complaint have been found correct and true as the same have been supported by oral evidence as well as recording of conversation. Based on this verification report, a case under prevention of corruption act has been registered against the aforementioned accused Narinder Kumar at VB police station Jalandhar range. He would be produced in the competent court tomorrow and further investigation into this case was under progress, he said.

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