Chandigarh, June 28:
Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Wednesday arrested a private agent for accepting a bribe of Rs 500 in lieu of getting a heavy driving license issued without undergoing mandatory driving test.
The accused identified as Gurcharanjeet Singh alias Gopi is running a cafe near an automatic driving test track centre in Jalandhar.
The accused agent has been arrested on the complaint of Daljit Singh resident of village Bibri in Kapurthala district.
Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the VB said that the complainant had lodged a complaint with Police Station VB, Jalandhar Range that the agent had demanded a bribe of Rs.1200 for getting his heavy driving license issued without undergoing any driving test.
The spokesperson informed that after a preliminary investigation of this complaint, a VB team laid a trap and arrested the agent while accepting the bribe.
In this regard, a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused agent and further investigation is under way in this matter.
