Jalandhar, May 15 -- The vigilance bureau (VB) of Jalandhar conducted raids at the municipal corporation's town planning branch on Thursday and detained an assistant town planning officer.

Though senior officers remained tight-lipped on the development, sources said the officer, posted in Jalandhar West constituency for the past four months, was taken into custody on corruption allegations.

Despite repeated attempts, Jalandhar range VB senior superintendent of police (SSP) Jagatpreet Singh was not available for comments.

As per information, VB teams, acting on a tip-off, cordoned off the whole branch, confiscated files pertaining to permissions given for change of land use, notices issued to commercial and residential units to pay thei...