Chandigarh, Feb. 21 -- The Union government has granted prosecution sanction against former Punjab chief secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua, a 1988-batch IAS officer, in a 16-year-old corruption case. The decision by the Union ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions, on February 11 came three months after the Punjab government, prompted by a stern high court directive, forwarded the case to the Centre. The Union ministry order, a copy of which HT has seen, said: "The competent authority... considered that sufficient evidence has been brought on record to establish a prima-facie case for granting sanction under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act." Janjua served as the state's top bureaucrat from 2022-2023 under the Aam Aa...