Ludhiana: A local court has sentenced an additional public prosecutor to five years of rigorous imprisonment for accepting bribe to help someone get discharged in a case. The court of special judge Amrinder Singh Shergill also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him, the default of which will extend his rigorous imprisonment by three months. On September 5, 2018, shortly after bicycle spare parts manufacturer Gurpreet Singh had come to the office of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau’s economic offences wing (EOW) in Ludhiana, the bureau registered a case against Malerkotla’s additional public prosecutor, Jatinder Singh Chahal, under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
On April 11, 2016, Gurpreet’s elder brother, Amar Singh, Amar’s wife, Simple Kaur, and their son, Jaskaran Singh, had come to his factory and allegedly assaulted him. The police, however, registered a case on April 11, 2016, under Sections 354 (assault of criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) in police station division number two, police post Miller Ganj, against him and his brother Swaran Singh. In 2018, the case was presented before the court of Akashdeep Singh Malwai, the then Judicial Magistrate, 1st class, Ludhiana.
On August 23, 2018, his advocate moved an application seeking his discharge. On the said date, Jatinder Singh Chahal, working as public prosecutor, met him and assured him to get him discharged in the case. Accused told him that he will not argue, for which, accused demanded a bribe of Rs 20,000.
On August 28, 2018, he went to the office of the accused and asked him to lower the amount, upon which the accused agreed for Rs 10,000, to be paid before September 7, 2018, the date fixed in the court. The complainant did not want to give bribe for his work, so he had approached vigilance department and produced 20 currency notes of Rs 500 denomination. The accused was later arrested by the vigilance team from near the court complex, Feroze Gandhi Market side, after he demanded and accepted Rs 10,000 from the complainant.
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