PATWARI CAUGHT TAKING ₹5,000 BRIBE IN MOGA

MOGA: A team from the vigilance department on Friday, arrested a Patwari Balwinder Singh allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹5,000 for intekal (mutation) of land. Complainant Sukhdev Singh, a farmer of Nihal Singh Wala sub-division, had approached the vigilance department, claiming that the official had been demanding bribe to do the mutation of five acres of his land. Deputy superintendent of police (vigilance) Palwinder Singh claimed the patwari was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe at Patwar Khana in the presence of two gazetted officers. A case under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered at the vigilance bureau police station against the accused.