Jalandhar, Nov. 28 -- The Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Thursday arrested Nirmal Singh, junior engineer of PSPCL posted at Dasuya, district Hoshiarpur, and Satnam Singh, government approved contractor red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs.15,000 from the complainant.

The VB said that the complainant, a taxi driver and resident of tehsil Dausya who owns a 13-marla plot in the village above which three-phase wires crossed, submitted an application to PSPCL sub-division Dasuya requesting that these wires be shifted to one side of his plot.

"The JE Nirmal Singh conducted a site survey and demanded Rs.5,000 for preparing the estimate from the complainant. After taking this bribe amount, he processed the estimate and further demanded Rs.5,000. After ...