State Vigilance Bureau today nabbed an Assistant Engineer (AE) Mohan Lal posted at Block Development & Panchayat Office at Dhilwan...

Spokesman News Service: Chandigarh, December 19: State Vigilance Bureau today nabbed an Assistant Engineer (AE) Mohan Lal posted at Block Development & Panchayat Office at Dhilwan in Kapurthala district red handed for accepting bribe of Rs.15,000. Disclosing this a spokesman of VB Punjab said Mohan Lal, AE was caught red handed on the complaint of Kulwinder Singh of village Prem Nagar, Kapurthala district.

AE was caught red handed and Rs.15,000

Giving details he said the complainant has approached the VB and alleged that the above said AE was demanding bribe of Rs. 20,000/- to issue the usage certificate (UC) regarding development grant issued to the gram panchayat and the deal was struck at Rs. 15,000.

After verifying his complaint the VB team laid a trap and the accused AE was caught red handed and Rs.15,000 was recovered from him in the presence of two official witnesses. He informed that a case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused at VB police station Jalandhar and further investigation was under progress.