CM dismisses PCS officer convicted in corruption case
CHANDIGARH:Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday ordered the dismissal of the PCS officer TK Goyal who was convicted by a court and sentenced to jail in a 2010 bribery case last month.
Goyal was dismissed from the service under Article 311 of Civil Service Rules, a spokesperson of the CM office said, adding that CM took serious cognisance of the officer’s conviction and ordered his immediate removal from office.
The Punjab Civil Service (PCS) officer was sentenced last month to three-year rigorous imprisonment in the bribery case, that was reported when he was joint secretary in the Scheduled castes/Backward Classes (SC/BC) welfare department.
Goyal was arrested on September 8, 2010, under the Prevention of Corruption Act, from his office at the Chandigarh civil secretariat on a complaint by George Shambu of Begowal village in Kapurthala district, after he was caught “red-handed” while accepting ₹50,000 for issuing SC certificate.
At present, the 1995-batch officer was posted as project director, Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), in addition to holding charge as joint secretary, higher education.
There were a lot of twists in the case.
The vigilance bureau authorities in 2012 submitted a case closure report in the court, claiming there was no evidence.
But the court rejected it, observing that when the agency had successfully conducted the raid, the case cancellation report should not have been presented on the grounds that the motive for demand of bribe was “weak”.