Punjab IAS officer Sanjay Popli held in Arms Act case

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 13

Chandigarh police have arrested Punjab-cadre IAS officer Sanjay Popli in a case under the Arms Act registered against him at Sector 11 police station. Popli was already in judicial custody in a graft case registered against him last year.

Popli was today produced in the local court, which sent him to one-day police custody.

The officer was booked on June 21 last year after a team of the Vigilance Bureau (VB) had found unaccounted live cartridges during a search at his residence in Sector 11.

VB officials had found 73 bullets during the search, along with 12-kg gold, 3-kg silver and expensive mobile phones.

Popli and his accomplice were arrested for allegedly demanding a bribe in exchange or clearing tenders for laying of sewerage pipeline in Nawanshahr .

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