Chandigarh, June 27 -- The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has registered a case against Avtar Singh, ASI (Local Rank), posted at city Police Station, Rampura, in Bathinda district, and Rajdeep Singh, a Panchayat member from village Rampura, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000. Disclosing this, an official spokesperson of the state VB said the action follows a complaint filed by a resident of village Dhaula, district Barnala, on the Chief Minister's Anti-Corruption Action Line.

He further informed that during the investigation, it was revealed that the said accused ASI, in collusion with Panchayat member Rajdeep Singh, had demanded Rs 40,000-50,000 from the complainant in exchange for favorable action in a case pending against him. ...