Chandigarh, Nov. 22 -- In its ongoing crackdown on corruption, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) today arrested Patwari Sarabjit Singh, posted at Circle Golward, Village Bala Chak, District Tarn Taran while allegedly accepting the second installment of a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a complainant, a resident of District Amritsar.
Disclosing this, a spokesperson of the VB said that the complainant wanted to sell his land and, for this purpose, he obtained a copy of the mutation (fard) of his property.
He then discovered that the land was not registered in his name but in the name of another person. The complainant approached Circle Patwari Sarabjit Singh to get the mutation corrected, upon which the Patwari demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh in excha...