Chandigarh: Punjab Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption, today nabbed a Senior Assistant of GMADA red handed while accepting bribe of Rs. 50,000.

Chandigarh: Punjab Vigilance Bureau, during its ongoing campaign against corruption, today nabbed a Senior Assistant of GMADA red handed while accepting bribe of Rs. 50,000.

Disclosing this an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said Kiranpal Kataria posted at GMADA, Mohali has been nabbed red handed on the complaint of Karam Singh, resident of village Bakarpur, district SAS Nagar.

He added that the complainant has approached the Bureau and informed that the accused was demanding bribe of Rs. 2 lac from him in lieu of clearing his file under land pool scheme. The deal was struck at Rs. 1.5 lac and he demanding Rs. 50000 as the first installment in advance and the remaining amount to be handed over after clearing the file.

The Spokesman informed that after verifying his information the Vigilance team laid a trap and the accused was caught red handed while accepting the bribe of Rs.50,000 from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.

He said a case under section 7, 13 (2) of Prevention of Corruption Act and 120-B of IPC has been registered against him at Vigilance Bureau Police Station, SAS Nagar and further investigation was under progress.