Chandigarh: The Punjab vigilance bureau claims to have busted a scam of fake recruitment in Punjab Police with the arrest of a cleaner and an barber who are alleged to have collected Rs 26.02 lakh from 102 people as bribe on the pretex of fixing grade-4 jobs for them in their department.Of the accused, Tarlochan Pal from Mohalla Begampur in Adampur of district Jalandhar is a grade-4 cleaner in the 3rd India Reserve Battalion, while Surinderpal from Sikri village in Nilokheri area of Haryana’s Karnal district is a grade-4 barber at the police academy in Phillaur. These arrests are based an investigation into a complaint that Nanglan villager Surinder Singh from Hoshiarpur district’s Garhshankar tehsil had dropped on the chief minister’s anti-corruption action line portal.The accused were produced in a Jalandhar court on Wednesday and remanded in two days of police custody. The preliminary investigation by the vigilance bureau’s Jalandhar range team had proved the charges of cheating to be accurate, and that Tarlochan and Surinderpal had made the gullible job seekers believe that police had 560 grade-4 vacancies to fill in the coming months.They demanded Rs 25,000 from every person who wanted one of their fictitious jobs, and they collected this money from across the state. Tarlochanpal put his collection of Rs 18.09 lakh in multiple bank accounts to avoid detection, and out of that amount, he transferred Rs 5.45 lakh to Surinderpal, who had put his collection of Rs 7.93 lakh into a separate bank account.A case under sections 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC, and section 7 (when a public servant accepts bribe) of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against both of the accused at the vigilance bureau’s Jalandhar range police station.
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