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 revenue halqa 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.