{"id":64005,"date":"2026-04-21T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=64005"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:13:38","slug":"vigilance-bureau-arrested-police-station-jaito-asi-harpal-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/vigilance-bureau-arrested-police-station-jaito-asi-harpal-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigilance Bureau nabs police station Jaito ASI red handed accepting bribe of Rs 33,500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1306\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/135a9d2b-60c4-49fd-b592-bed16d6a24c5c267650c-335e-4b99-a1f7-efb80f394730vigilance-bureau-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/135a9d2b-60c4-49fd-b592-bed16d6a24c5c267650c-335e-4b99-a1f7-efb80f394730vigilance-bureau-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/135a9d2b-60c4-49fd-b592-bed16d6a24c5c267650c-335e-4b99-a1f7-efb80f394730vigilance-bureau-640x359.jpg 640w, https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/135a9d2b-60c4-49fd-b592-bed16d6a24c5c267650c-335e-4b99-a1f7-efb80f394730vigilance-bureau-681x382.jpg 681w, https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/135a9d2b-60c4-49fd-b592-bed16d6a24c5c267650c-335e-4b99-a1f7-efb80f394730vigilance-bureau.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Punjab E News:<\/span> The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against corruption in the state, has apprehended Assistant Sub Inspector Harpal Singh posted at police station Jaito district Faridkot, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs. 33,500\/-.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the state VB said the above-mentioned accused has been arrested based on a complaint lodged by a resident of Jaito tehsil district Faridkot.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a case under NDPS Act was registered against complainant&#8217;s husband and mother-in-law wherein accused ASI Harpal Singh was investigation officer. In this connection, complainant alleged that accused ASI demanded bribe of Rs. 2 lakh in lieu of helping him in this case and for not taking police remand. Upon requesting, deal was settled at Rs 80,000\/- and had taken first installment of Rs. 40,000\/- as bribe from the complainant.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that accused ASI further demanded second installment of bribe Rs. 40,000\/- from the complainant. Complainant had recorded the entire conversation of demanding bribe.<\/p>\n<p>Unwilling to pay any illegal gratification, the complainant approached the Vigilance Bureau Unit, Faridkot. After a preliminary enquiry on his complaint, the VB team laid a trap during which the accused ASI was arrested red handed while accepting bribe money of Rs 33,500\/- from the complainant in presence of two official witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, a case under prevention of corruption act has been registered against the accused at VB police station Ferozepur and further investigation into this case is under progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab E News: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against corruption in the state, has apprehended Assistant Sub Inspector Harpal Singh posted at police station Jaito district Faridkot, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs. 33,500\/-. Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the state VB said the above-mentioned accused has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-latest","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vigilance Bureau nabs police station Jaito ASI red handed accepting bribe of Rs 33,500 - PunjabENews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/vigilance-bureau-arrested-police-station-jaito-asi-harpal-singh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vigilance Bureau nabs police station Jaito ASI red handed accepting bribe of Rs 33,500 - PunjabENews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Punjab E News: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against corruption in the state, has apprehended Assistant Sub Inspector Harpal Singh posted at police station Jaito district Faridkot, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs. 33,500\/-. 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