{"id":26548,"date":"2026-04-16T19:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/?p=26548"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:28:55","slug":"vigilance-bureau-nabs-principal-red-handed-accepting-bribe-of-rs-6000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/?p=26548","title":{"rendered":"Vigilance Bureau nabs Principal red handed accepting bribe of Rs 6,000\/-"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chandigarh,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">(Gurvinder Sidhu)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against\u00a0 corruption in the state, has apprehended Principal Gurmeet Singh posted at\u00a0 Camp Khalsa Senior Secondary School Ajitsar Mohi district Ludhiana (Government Aided), red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs. 6,000\/-.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">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 Mohi district Ludhiana.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said that the complainant passed class 10th during COVID times and has not received class 10th\u00a0 passing certificate. He also applied for duplicate certificate through online but that was also not received. Thereafter he approached the Principal\u00a0 of his school to get his Matric certificate. In this connection, accused Principal demanded a bribe of Rs. 15800\/- and has taken Rs 10,000\/- as bribe\u00a0 on the spot from him. Whereas the government fee for getting a duplicate certificate is\u00a0 Rs 900\/- and the Tatkal government fee is Rs. 2000\/-.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Unwilling to pay any illegal gratification, the complainant approached the Vigilance Bureau\u00a0 Ludhiana. After a preliminary enquiry on his complaint, the VB team laid a trap during which the accused Principal was arrested red handed while accepting\u00a0 bribe money of Rs 6,000\/- from the complainant in presence of two official witnesses.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In this regard, a case under prevention of corruption act has been registered against the accused at VB police station Ludhiana and further investigation into this case is under progress.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chandigarh, (Gurvinder Sidhu) The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing drive against\u00a0 corruption in the state, has apprehended Principal Gurmeet Singh posted at\u00a0 Camp <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/?p=26548\" title=\"Vigilance Bureau nabs Principal red handed accepting bribe of Rs 6,000\/-\"><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG-20260416-WA0005.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe1HXo-6Uc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26549,"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26548\/revisions\/26549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justicenews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}