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Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) has registered a case against six officials (now retired) of Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation (PSIEC), namely S.P. Singh, Chief General Manager, Jaswinder Singh Randhawa General Manager , Amarjeet Singh Kahlon Estate Officer, Vijay Gupta Senior Assistant, Darshan Garg Consultant and Savtej Singh SDO.

These officers/employees had misused their official positions and wrongly allotted expensive industrial plots to their relatives, friends and known persons thereby causing a financial loss of Rs 8,72,71,666 crore to the state exchequer.

In this case, two officers of the corporation, Chief General Manager (Estates) S.P. Singh and General Manager (Personnel) Jaswinder Singh Randhawa have been arrested and produced before the court, where the court has granted four-days remand to the VB for further investigation into the case. The VB is on the hunt to arrest the remaining accused.

Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said in this regard after investigation of a Vigilance Enquiry No. 03 dated 04-04-2018, FIR No 4, dated 08.03.2024 has been registered against the above mentioned six officers/employees of PSIEC under sections 409, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B and section 13(1), 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act at Police Station, Vigilance Bureau, Flying Squad-1, Punjab, SAS Nagar.

He revealed that during investigation it has come to light that the P.S.I.E.C. had not adhered to the prescribed instructions at the time of allotment of

industrial plots.
(editor@dailyworld.in)