Helped 9 to get SDO’s post, councillor admits

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 28

Akali councillor from Malout Sham Lal Daddi has admitted that he helped at least nine persons get employed as SDOs with the Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA).

Arrested by Vigilance Bureau sleuths from Bathinda yesterday, Daddi is in police remand till July 1. He is a close associate of Dyal Singh Kolianwali, an aide of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. 

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He claimed that several candidates approached him while recruitment of SDOs was going on, and he helped them in getting the job. The recruitments were conducted in November last year.

The Akali leader has reportedly said that his accomplice Amit Sagar, arrested by the Bureau earlier, was in touch with a Bathinda-based man, who, in turn, was in touch with the main conduit for the Lucknow-based key accused in the case. The Bureau has now sought production warrants for Sagar, who is lodged in the Nabha Jail these days.

Sources said they were very close to ascertain how the question papers set by the University Institute of Management Sciences, Panjab University, got leaked. The role of private publishers hired by the university is also under the lens.

Daddi was also involved in introducing Local Bodies Department post candidates to the kingpin in Lucknow.