Big news: Government employee arrested for taking bribe of Rs 20,000 from widow

Vigilance Bureau arrests municipal council clerk red-handed for taking bribe of Rs 20,000 from widow

February 24, 2025, Nazarana Times Bureau

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau, as part of its anti-corruption drive in the state, has arrested Suresh Kumar, a clerk posted in the Municipal Council Malout, District Sri Muktsar Sahib, on Sunday while taking a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a poor widow.

Disclosing this in this regard, a spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said that the accused has been arrested on a complaint filed by a widow resident of Malout city.

He said that the complainant contacted the Vigilance Bureau and alleged that the said clerk had demanded a bribe of Rs 50,000 in exchange for sanctioning money for the construction of his house under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) Mission, but after his insistence, the said person agreed to take this amount in installments.