Bribery case: Joint Director of Technical Education sent to judicial custody

New Delhi

Jagjeet Singh, Joint Director of Technical Education and Industrial Training – Government of Punjab, who arrested on Friday for allegedly accepting bribe, has been sent to judicial custody.

While the arrest was made by CBI after th ecomplainant stated in his complaint that Singh took Rs 50,000 as bribe from a person running an industrial training institute without proper infrastructure in Chandigarh.

The complainant had stated in his complaint to the CBI that two officials had visited his institute (ITI) and informed him that they had been directed to conduct an inspection of his institute. The ITI owner alleged that the two officials told him that his institute was running without proper lab equipment, charging fees from students of reserved category and had given admission to students who did not attend class and had only 10 per cent attendance, reports The Indian Express.

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Jagjeet Singh, Joint Director of Technical Education,sent to judicial custody.

He was arrested on Friday on charges of taking Rs 50,000as bribe.