India, Sept. 25 -- The cabinet gave prosecution sanction against former forest minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot in a corruption case registered by the vigilance bureau in 2022. This paves the way for VB to prosecute Dharamsot, who was a minister during the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government, in a case registered by VB for accepting Rs.1.5 crore as a bribe in June 2022. Dharamsot is embroiled in several cases, including the forest scam, PMLA, and disproportionate assets being probed by the VB and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He is currently out on bail in all the cases. According to the VB probe, forest department contractor Harminder Singh Hummy had disclosed in his statement, recorded under Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act, that he maintained a handwritten diary regarding bribes given to senior officers of the forest department and political leaders since 2017. The diary was recovered from his place, and the perusal and investigation into the contents of the diary revealed the modus operandi of the culprits, which led to their arrests. Hummy stated that he paid Rs.500 for felling each khair tree to Dharamsot and that the former minister received alleged bribes for transfers of DFOs, rangers, block officers, and forest guards, the VB probe said. ED had also arrested Dharamsot in an investigation under the PMLA, which had revealed that the former minister, during the check period from 2017-2022, which included his tenure as the forest minister in the then Congress government, acquired assets disproportionate to his and his sons' known sources of income....