Vigilance Bureau apprehends Head Constable accepting Rs 70000 bribe

Chandigarh, January 2, 2025 (WISHAVWARTA):- The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state, on Thursday has arrested Head Constable Kuldeep Singh, posted at police station Sangat, Bathinda district for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 70000.
Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said this case has been registered against the aforementioned police official on a complaint lodged by Jagwinder Singh, a resident of village Pathrala, in Bathinda district.
He further informed that the said complaint has approached the VB and informed that his friend has been lodged in Bathinda jail and the said police official had threatened to involve his wife also in the police case and demanded Rs 1,50,000 for refraining to book her but the deal was struck at Rs 70000.
The spokesperson further added that after a preliminary enquiry into this complaint the VB team laid a trap during which the said police personnel was caught red handed while he was receiving the bribe money from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses. In this regard a case under Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused at VB police station Bathinda range and further investigation into this case was under progress, he said.