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CBI Arrests Punjab Joint Director, Technical Education, For Graft

Darpan News Desk IANS, 18 Feb, 2017 01:32 PM

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a joint director of Technical Education and Industrial Training, Punjab, for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

A case was registered under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the Joint Director working in the Department of Technical Education and Industrial Training on a complaint.

The complainant alleged that two officials had visited his institute (ITI) and informed him that they had been directed to conduct inspection of his institute after receiving a complaint alleging that the institute was running without proper lab equipment, charging fees from students of reserved category and had given admission to students who did not attend classes.

A show-cause notice was also issued by the department for de-affiliation of the institute.

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