{"id":65153,"date":"2026-10-16T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/?p=65153"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:57:53","slug":"vigilance-bureau-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/vigilance-bureau-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigilance Bureau nabs Patwari red handed accepting bribe of Rs 30,000\/-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against\u00a0 corruption in the state, has apprehended Patwari Manish Kumar posted at revenue office Tapa district Barnala red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000\/-.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 village Bhotna tehsil Tapa district Barnala.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He stated that the complainant alleged that the accused demanded illegal gratification of Rs. 30,000\/-\u00a0 in lieu of executing the mutation of his land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unwilling to pay the illegal gratification, complainant approached the VB Range Patiala. Acting on his complaint, the VB team laid a trap during which accused Patwari Manish Kumar was arrested red handed while accepting\u00a0 bribe money of Rs 30,000\/- from the complainant in presence of two official witnesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this regard, a case under prevention of corruption act has been registered against the accused at VB police station Patiala and further investigation into this case is under progress.<\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_10f4af61817f76cf\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel md-content enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color tutor-markdown-rendering\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-busy=\"false\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<div>#AntiCorruption #VigilanceBureau #PunjabPolice #BribeArrest<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against\u00a0 corruption in the state, has apprehended Patwari Manish Kumar posted at revenue office Tapa district Barnala red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000\/-. Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the state VB said the above-mentioned accused has been arrested based on a complaint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,10243,14176,1865,1961,20,16185,9919,1,3],"tags":[42421,41612],"class_list":["post-65153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-chandigarh","category-cover-story","category-delhi","category-haryana","category-india","category-national","category-politics","category-punjab","category-world","tag-a-case-under-prevention-of-corruption-act-has-been-registered-against-the-accused-at-vb-police-station-patiala-and-further-investigation-into-this-case-is-under-progress","tag-in-this-regard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65155,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65153\/revisions\/65155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}