CHANDIGARH: Whether sarpanches and panches fall in the category of public servants for inquiry by the Punjab vigilance bureau would now be decided by the Punjab and Haryana high court. A resident of Badholi Gujran village in Patiala district has petitioned the high court challenging the bureau's instructions on March 6, ...

CHANDIGARH: On the occasion of Independence Day on Monday, Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced to grant a special remission of three months to the convicts who had been sentenced for a period of five years or exceeding five years as a result of their conviction by the courts ...

CHANDIGARH: Sixty one officials have been convicted under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act during the first half of 2011 on the basis of cases for filed by Haryana vigilance bureau. A spokesman of the bureau said the accused included five sub-divisional officers, six junior engineers, 10 revenue officials, 11 ...

CHANDIGARH: In a reply filed by the Punjab vigilance bureau in the Punjab and Haryana high court, it was said that IAS officer VK Janjua was trying to delay the trial in a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act against him. The reply was submitted to a bench headed by ...

SAS NAGAR: Four witnesses turned hostile in the cash-for­ job case against former chairperson of the Punjab Subordinate Staff Selection Board (PSSSB), Tejinder Pal Singh Sandhu, in the court of special vigilance judge, SAS Nagar, on Monday. The witnesses refused to identify Tejinder Pal Singh Sandhu and retracted from their earlier ...

SAS NAGAR: The special SAS Nagar court has indicted six persons, including former chairperson of the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board (PSSSB), in the cash­ for-job scam case registered by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during the pervious Congress regime from 2002 to 2007. Among those booked were former board chairperson ...

FARIDKOT: The Moga police arrested three policemen at the court complex here on Tuesday in a corruption case. The three are already facing a trial in the court under the Passport Act. The accused are Jaswinder Singh, Ranjit Singh and Gurdial Singh. A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act had been ...

CHANDIGARH: Justice M.M.S. Bedi of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday sought clarification from the state if there was any independent information with it - apart from the recommendations given by the Vidhan Sabha Committee - against Capt Amarinder Singh in the Amritsar Improvement Trust case. The Bench directed ...

CHANDIGARH: At least 12 fresh cases of release of grants to fake beneficiaries under the Shagun scheme have come to light, all from Jaitu Chungi locality in Kotkapura town of Faridkot district. Under the scheme, girls from below poverty line (BPL} Scheduled Caste families are given Rs 15,000 each at the ...

CHANDIGARH: Six months after the suspension of district welfare officer, Faridkot, the Punjab government has suspended another official in the multi­ crore embezzlement of grant under the Shagun scheme. The district welfare officer, Amritsar, is in the line of government fire this time. It was in April that a four­ member probe ...

CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Nirmaljit Singh Kahlon on Monday sought time to file a reply on a PIL seeking Punjab and Haryana High Court directions to the agency to chargesheet Kahlon under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice ...

JALANDHAR: The SHO Adampur police station was arrested on Friday for alleged connivance with the robbers who struck at the Garden Colony home of a US based expatriate on March 4 and looted Rs 60 lakh. SHO Sukha Singh has been arrested under sections 13(2), 88 of the Prevention of ...

CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) chairman Dr K.C. Bangar, who was recently booked on the charges of corruption and cheating by the Haryana Vigilance Bureau, and six other accused, including Kalka MLA Pardeep Chaudhary, were granted anticipatory bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court here on Wednesday. Bangar ...