Jalandhar, Jan. 16 -- The vigilance bureau (VB) caught a contractual employee posted at the office of the director, land records department, Jalandhar, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs.4,000 in lieu of providing land records to the complainant.

A VB official spokesperson said that the accused, Parvesh, has been arrested based on a complaint lodged by a resident of Chhokra village in the Dasuya tehsil, district SBS Nagar.

"The complainant stated that his wife had filed a civil suit in the court at Dasuya seeking her lawful share of 12 acres of ancestral land. In this regard, certified copies of jamabandi, land allotment and deposit records were required to establish ownership of the land. The complainant said he applied to the of...