9 Nabbed Red Handed In Graft Cases During Sept, 2015 in Punjab

Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, October 5, 2015: Intensifying its campaign to check the corruption in the government offices, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, has been successful in nabbing 9 officers/officials red handed while accepting...

9 Nabbed Red Handed In Graft Cases During Sept, 2015 in Punjab
Author(s): 
Chandigarh, October 5, 2015: Intensifying its campaign to check the corruption in the government offices, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, has been successful in nabbing 9 officers/officials red handed while accepting bribe in the month of September.
Punjab Vigilance Bureau has also initiated fresh Vigilance Inquiries in 6 other cases. Similarly Punjab Vigilance Bureau completed the probe and investigation in 5 bribery cases subsequently challans have been filed in the courts.
Disclosing this here, an official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said that during the month of September, 2015 the Vigilance Bureau besides apprehending 9 corrupt officers/officials also registered One criminal case in the month. He said that 6 cases of disproportionate assets were registered against the officers on charge of amassing wealth beyond their known income sources.
He said that all these officers were booked under Prevention of Corruption Act-1988.
The spokesman further said that during the resumed hearing in 2 different cases of corruption, the Hon’ble courts pronounced sentence and convicted  2 persons in bribery cases.
 
Date: 
Monday, October 5, 2015