CHB official gets 4-year jail for taking Rs 20K bribe

A local court has sentenced Jagdish Raj Manchanda, a senior assistant with the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB), to undergo four years of rigorous imprisonment in a bribery case.

Manchanda was nabbed by the UT Vigilance Department while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a resident of EWS flats, Dhanas, in March 2020. The complainant told the officials that he had lost the documents pertaining to the flat ownership.

He alleged that Manchanda assured him that he would provide duplicate documents, but sought Rs 50,000 as bribe.

The vigilance sleuths said the deal was finally fixed at Rs 40,000. They laid a trap and arrested the accused while taking the first installment of Rs 20,000 in Sector 22.

After hearing the arguments, the court sentenced the accused to undergo four years of rigorous imprisonment.