Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann today said a year after the government started an ‘anti-corruption action line’, more than 300 corrupt former ministers, MLAs, top-level officers and department officials have been put behind the bars.
Punjab Vigilance Bureau in 2022 arrested 172 accused in 129 bribery cases. They included four former Congress ministers, an IAS officer, a chief forest conservator, two forest conservators and an Assistant Inspector General of Police, bureau's .
The court trial of former Punjab minister Sadhu Singh Dharmsot in the Forest Department corruption scandal has been held up as the state government has still not granted its sanction for prosecution in the case.