Yesterday evening, Vigilance Bureau arrested IAS officer SanjayPopli of the 2008 batch. He was arrested when he was roaming in the 17 Sectorof Chandigarh with his family. ThePunjab Vigilance arrested Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer SanjayPopli and his secretary on corruption charges.
As per the FIR, Popli allegedly sought one percentcommission from a contractor of a Rs 7 crore sewerage project in the Nawanshahrtown during the previous Congress regime. The contractor paid Rs 3.5 lakhthrough Sanjeev Vats, a Superintendent-level official posted as secretary tothe officer, who was heading the Water Supply and Sewerage Board, on January12.
The officials said Popli was seeking the remaining Rs 3.5lakh from the contractor, who recorded his phone calls and complained about theanti-corruption helpline set up by the present Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)government.
Sources reveal that after the arrest of an IAS officer,other officers involved in any sought of corruption are also on the radar of thePunjab Vigilance Bureau.
It has also come to the notice of the Bureau that almostfour IAS officers were involved in the irrigation scam that took place for doingcorruption of Rs. 1,000 crores.
The forest scam case file has also been opened again and it isobserved by the team of the Vigilance Bureau that some of the retired officersare also involved in this scam.
The Bureau has assured that it will find all the officersinvolved in corruption in different scams and will take strict action againstthem.