Ludhiana, Sept. 5 -- The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) apprehended an aide of a clerk posted in the tehsil (east) office at Mini Secretariat for accepting a bribe of Rs.20,000 on Thursday.

The arrested accused has been identified as Rajat Sharma of Basant Nagar, Partap Singh Wala, while clerk Amaninder Singh is yet to be arrested. The Vigilance Bureau has registered an FIR against both of them.

Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the VB said the arrest was made after a resident of Basant Nagar filed a complaint on the chief minister's Anti-Corruption Action Line portal. "The complainant alleged that accused Amaninder Singh, clerk, demanded a bribe of Rs.50,000 for providing information regarding registration of a plot...