Odisha Vigilance has detected and registered the highest number of Disproportionate Asset cases in the country for the second successive year, said an official of the State’s anti-corruption bureau on Sunday.
The file giving additional portfolios to Atishi was sent to LG Saxena a day after Rajya Sabha passed Delhi Services Bill, which empowers Delhi LG to control Group A services in Delhi.
Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Arun Kumar had received Rs 25,000 as bribe from the complainant and was threatening him to get his anticipatory bail cancelled in the first information report (FIR) for more.
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) summoned Barjinder Singh Hamdard for questioning in a case related to the Jang-e-Azadi project, a venture of the previous Parkash Singh Badal government.
The MLA has been found in possession of assets disproportionate to the tune of Rs 9,18,13,007.
Mann said Punjab state Vigilance Commission Act 2020, which was supposed to be enacted on the lines of the Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003, suffers from serious deviations.
Jethwa said this while speaking at the two-day training programme on anti-corruption laws for Direct Recruit OPS (Group-A) Officers.
Highlighting the importance of financial transparency and good governance as part of 5T framework of the state, he said, “The training module of this nature will provide inputs on anti-corruption laws, maintenance of government accounts, audit, irregularities in financial management, preventive vigilance.”
The bureau registered 14 criminal cases in which 20 accused were involved in corruption. In these criminal cases, among others four police personnel, two revenue officials and six employees of improvement trust Ludhiana including its former chairman Raman Bala Subramanyam have been booked by the VB for further investigations.
Sharing this information on Friday, a spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said in the first case, Manish Lamba, SDO and Pawan Kumar, junior engineer of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) posted at Nissing, Karnal and private driver of the SDO were caught with Rs One lakh bribe money. They have taken bribes from a farmer for removing power lines from his fields at Nissing.
