Tehsildar (West), Ludhiana Arvinder Singh and his alleged aide Bunty being taken to produced them in a court at Ludhiana on Saturday.
City Air News photo: Mandeep Kumar Verma
Ludhiana, April 6, 2013: Tehsildar (West), Ludhiana Arvinder Singh and his alleged aide Bunty were produced in a local court on Saturday.
Court sent both the accused in one day police remand.
Both were arrested by the vigilance bureau (VB) sleuths on Friday evening, under clause 10 of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
They were arrested in a raid during which cash worth Rs 1.15 lakh was recovered from one person identified as Bunty. He alleged that he had been working for the Tehsildar Arvinder Singh. The raiding party was surprised when it found a false chamber in a wall at the Tehsildar's office. Cash worth Rs 26,000 was also recovered from this false chamber.