CBI arrests Punjab joint director, technical education, for graft

Chandigarh, February 18 : 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.