Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrests Batala Commisioner-cum-SDM in Rs 50,000 bribery case

₹13.5 lakh unaccounted cash seized

Babushahi Bureau

Chandigarh, November 22, 2025 –In a major action against corruption, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) on Friday arrested Vikramjeet Singh Panthey, Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation Batala and SDM Batala, after he was caught red-handed accepting a bribe of ₹50,000. The VB later recovered ₹13.5 lakh in unaccounted cash from his possession during a subsequent search.

A VB spokesperson said the complainant, a resident of Batala in Gurdaspur district, had completed patchwork and road repair projects for the Municipal Corporation.

For these works, he had submitted two bills amounting to ₹3,72,852. When he approached the Commissioner regarding the p

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