Punjab VB arrests SDE in PSIEC plot allotment scam

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested Savtej Singh, Sub Divisional Engineer (SDE), of Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation (PSIEC), an accused wanted in connection with committing irregularities in allotment of industrial plots.

Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said in this regard the Bureau had already registered a case under FIR No. 04, dated 08.03.2024 under sections 409, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of IPC and 13(1)A read with 13(2) at VB flying squad-1 police station, Punjab at Mohali.

He further added that the above mentioned accused had created a fake firm named M/s Gurtej Industries in the name of one Gurtej Singh, using fake documents. Thereafter, he allotted plot No. A-394, Industrial Focal Point, Amritsar in the name of said firm by transferring money from his son Manroop Singh and other relatives' accounts to the PSIEC.

The spokesperson informed that the said accused SDE Savtej Singh has surrendered in the Mohali court today. Subsequently, he has been arrested and has been remanded in three day police remand to the VB, he said.