PSPCL lineman held for demanding bribe

Tarn Taran, August 13

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Sunday arrested Dilbag Singh, a lineman with PSPCL, posted at Amarkot subdivision in Tarn Taran district, for demanding a bribe of Rs 5,000.

An official spokesperson for the VB informed here on Sunday that Karamjit Singh, a resident of Valtoha (Tarn Taran) village, had lodged a complaint on Anti-Corruption Portal on July 14 that Gurnam Singh, a resident of the same village, had approached the accused lineman for exchanging a single-phase transformer and lineman Dilbagh Singh demanded the bribe from him for the same. The complainant also produced an audio recording of the accused.

After investigating the complaint, a team of the VB arrested the lineman after registering a case against him at the VB police station (Amritsar Range) under the Prevention of Corruption Act.