The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state on Friday registered a corruption case against revenue Patwari Gurwinder Singh, posted at Pirubanda, East Ludhiana along with his private agent Nikku for obtaining Rs 34.70 lakh as a bribe. In this case brother and father of Patwari have also been booked for conspiring with him in accepting the bribe.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the state VB said the complainant Babbu Tanwar, a resident of Rampura Phool town, district Bathinda has lodged a against the said Patwari and his private agent on the Chief Minister's Anti Corruption Action Line and alleged that the duo have accepted a bribe amount of Rs 40,000 for sanctioning mutation of property belonging to his father which was got registered in the year 1994.
He further informed that in this regard verification of online complaint has been made by a team of VB Range Ludhiana. During the probe it was found that above said Patwari, his agent Nikku, Parmjeet Singh father and a brother of said Patwari, in connivance with each another, have obtained bribes amounting to Rs 27,50,000 on four occasions in lieu of sanctioning mutation of property of his father situated near bus stand Ludhiana.