In Punjab, in an effort to weed out corruption, the State Vigilance Bureau (VB) has apprehended 173 persons red-handed while taking bribes in different cases in the year 2024. These include 10 gazetted officers and 129 non-gazetted officials besides private persons. Amongst those arrested in corruption cases include a senior IAS officer, Punjab Civil Service (PCS) Officer and a Woman Assistant Commissioner of Police.

Vigilance Bureau Chief Director-cum-Special DGP Varinder Kumar informed that One Gazetted and One Non-Gazetted Officer have also been dismissed from their services by the state government after their conviction by the competent courts. The courts have also imposed fines varying from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 5,00,000 in these cases which amounted to a total sum of Rs. 22,42,000, he added.