Cooperative Dept clerk held taking bribe

Our Correspondent

Mandi Ahmedgarh, February 21

A team of the District Vigilance Police, led by SSP (Vigilance) Rupinder Singh, has nabbed a clerk of the Cooperative Department for accepting a bribe for felicitating approval for appointment of salesman at the Jartauli Cooperative Society, Jartauli village, Dehlon Block, near here today.

The clerk has been identified as Parminder Singh, who was posted at the office of Joint Sub Registrar Cooperative Society (East), Ludhiana. He was arrested while accepting Rs 12,000 as part of the settled bribe amount. He had told the complainant that he had to pay part of the bribe to his seniors in the department.

The SSP (Vigilance) had received information that Parminder had demanded bribe from Amrik of the Jartauli Cooperative Society for getting permission for appointment of salesman at Jartauli. He directed his staff, led by DSP Jaswinder Singh, to lay a trap to nab the suspect.

Investigations by DSP Jaswinder Singh and Inspector Kuljinder Singh revealed that the suspect had demanded Rs 50,000 from Amrik for getting permission for the post and the amount was settled at Rs 35,000.

The complainant had paid Rs 20,000 as an advance payment and the balance was to be paid today.

A trap was laid to nab the clerk red-handed. The vigilance team caught him accepting Rs 12,000 from Amrik in the presence of excise and taxation officers Dr Aman Gupta and Amandeep Singh.

A case was registered at the Vigilance police station under Section 7, 13 (2) of the Prevention of Crime Act.