ASI of Punjab Police arrested for taking bribe

Punjab news,29 Nov 2024

The Vigilance Bureau has arrested a person Madan Lal Sharma resident of village Baghora (Patiala) red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 for a policeman. In this regard, the spokesperson of the State Vigilance Bureau said that the accused has been arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by Dilbagh Singh, a resident of Balheri village of Patiala district. The spokesperson said that the complainant approached the Vigilance Bureau and told that he had a quarrel with the Granthi Gurnaib Singh in the Gurdwara Sahib of the village and the Granthi filed a complaint against him at the Ghanour police station.

The complainant alleged that the ASI posted in the said police station. Swaran Singh is pressing him to pay a bribe of Rs 10,000 to take his side in the case and is telling him that if he does not pay the bribe then he will register a case against him. According to the complaint, the accused ASI asked the complainant to give this amount of bribe to his acquaintance Madan Lal.

The spokesperson said that after the initial investigation of this complaint, the Vigilance Bureau team laid a trap, during which the said Madan Lal was arrested by ASI. Taking a bribe of Rs 10,000 from the complainant for the sake of Swaran Singh, he was caught red-handed in the presence of 2 government witnesses.